Description: Giving the campers something to read while they guard the flag
I was attempting to upgrade my homelab which I pushed to VMWare vSphere 8.0 because of… YOLO… and after a recent 8.0.1 update I was no longer able to upgrade individual ESXi hosts. I had already updated vCenter to the latest version, now I wanted to upgrade the hosts. That is my normal course of action, vCenter, then hosts; as recommended. When I went to upgrade the hosts I was told:
"Health check fails to retrieve data about service 'vSphere ESX Agent Manager' on '3 Node And Friends'. Verify that the service 'vSphere ESX Agent Manager' is running and try again."
This had me SSH into the appliance and looking at logs. (To quickly mention EAM = “ vSphere ESX Agent Manager “) Here are some of the fun errors I was getting in “/var/vmware/eam/eam.log”: