ESXi 6.7 client GUI broken - cnMaestro OVA upload fails at times

Products cnMaestro
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Folks

In the latest version of ESXi 6.7.0 with their Client version 1.32.0 and above, some of you might face OVA upload fails with below error

Cause: Possibly unhandled rejection: {}
Version: 1.33.3
Build: 12923304
ESXi: 6.7.0
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.131 Safari/537.36
Exception stack:
TypeError: Cannot read property 'keyValue' of undefined
    at updateSummaryPortlet (https://192.168.1.2/ui/scripts/main.js:375:415)
    at $scope.wizardOptions.onFinish (https://192.168.1.2/ui/scripts/main.js:375:5968)
    at https://192.168.1.2/ui/scripts/main.js:324:23176
    at m.$digest (https://192.168.1.2/ui/scripts/main.js:324:28780)
    at https://192.168.1.2/ui/scripts/main.js:324:30503

Its a known issue in vmware https://labs.vmware.com/flings/vsphere-html5-web-client/bugs/803

The workaround for the ESXi 6.7 UI issue.

  1. Download the esxui offline bundle for 6.x from https://labs.vmware.com/flings/esxi-embedded-host-client

             esxui-offline-bundle-6.x.zip

  1. Copy the downloaded the esxui-offline bundle to the ESXi host
  2. Login into ESXi host and execute the below command

esxcli software vib install -d "/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/tmp/esxui-offline-bundle-6.x-*.zip"

  1. Reboot the ESXi host based on the need.

                             OR

Trying Downloading older version of ESXi 6.7.0 with client version 1.25.0 from VMware site (build no VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.7.0-8169922.x86_64.iso)

Regards

Rupam

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How to update VI web client interface for ESXi 6.5
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If you are using ESXi 6.5 and seeing below two issues when using VI web-client interface:

> Java exceptions during VI web-client navigation
> Not seeing RDM option while adding disk to VM

More info:
https://communities.vmware.com/thread/542973


These above issues are resolved in the latest available esx-ui package, which can be downloaded from below VMware URL:

More info:
https://labs.vmware.com/flings/esxi-embedded-host-client#summary

Download Offline bundle for ESXi 6.x - esxui-offline-bundle-6.x-5744014.zip

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Steps:
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Step-1:
To check currently installed esx-ui package, Enable SSH aa login to ESXi 6.5 host via SSH and run, you can use putty client to login:

[root@esxi:~] esxcli software vib list | grep esx-ui
Output:
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esx-ui 1.32.0-10692217 VMware VMwareCertif ied 2019-05-17
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Step-2:
Copy zip file to any location on the esxi host for example i am copying it to “datastore2”, you can copy to “datastore1”
[root@esxi:~] cd /vmfs/volumes/datastore2

[root@esxi:/vmfs/volumes/5cdc4b82-6c19a104-f71e-3440b586127a]

[root@esxi:/vmfs/volumes/5cdc4b82-6c19a104-f71e-3440b586127a] esxcli software vib install -d "/vmfs/volumes/datastore2/esxui-offline-bundle-6.x-12086396.zip"
Output:
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Installation Result
Message: Operation finished successfully.
Reboot Required: false
VIBs Installed: VMware_bootbank_esx-ui_1.33.1-12086396
VIBs Removed: VMware_bootbank_esx-ui_1.32.0-10692217
VIBs Skipped:
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[root@esxi:/vmfs/volumes/5cdc4b82-6c19a104-f71e-3440b586127a]

Reboot the ESXi host based on the need. But if you get a problem during .ova installation must reboot ESXi host.

Please note that I have installed successfully cnMaestro in ESXi 6.7 host.

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