Everytime I reboot my ESXi 5 host it returns to an old configuration (connected to old datastores and listing old virtual machines).
I have found a few oddities which are probably part/root of the problem but i'm not sure how to go about fixing:
- /bootbank/boot.cfg is missing
- /bootbank points to /tmp
- when i issue df -h via ssh the only disks listed and NFS mountpoints, no local disk is listed
~ # df -h
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
NFS 1.4T 568.4G 828.7G 41% /vmfs/volumes/isos
NFS 119.2G 60.1G 59.1G 50% /vmfs/volumes/sql
NFS 2.7T 976.2G 1.8T 35% /vmfs/volumes/vms
~ # cd /bootbank/
/tmp # ls
imgdb.tgz scratch vmware-root
Any ideas on how to solve this?
Best Answer
Are you PXE booting the image? This is fairly common if you are using PXE or other remote boot (like booting on iscsi) and you aren't updating the base image when you make updates.