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I was upgrading my Dell Array this evening and ran into an error and had to call Dell Premier Support, so I am going to share the fix since I couldn’t find the answer anywhere online.

ERROR  8/4/10  8:15:40 PM  <ARRAYNAME>  Array firmware update from version V4.3.2 to  failed. Reason: Space required: 21MB, available: 19MB.

Turns out the Dell Equal Logic stores unnecessary files on the flash drive and that will cause the upgrade to fail. Nice huh!

So here is how you fix it.

You should now be able to perform the upgrade.

1. First you need to log in to a machine that has the VMware vSphere CLI installed.

2. Download the following upgrade ZIP bundles from the VMware Web site to a location that is accessible to the vSphere CLI machine.

The esxupdate bulletin, pre-upgrade-from-ESX4.0-to-4.1.0-0.0.build#-release.zip
The upgrade bulletin, upgrade-from-ESX4.0-to-4.1.0-0.0.build#-release.zip

3. Power off any virtual machines that are running on the host and place the host into maintenance mode.

4. Install the esxupdate bulletin by running the following command on the vSphere CLI machine.

5. Install the upgrade bulletin by running the following command on the vSphere CLI machine.

6. Verify that the bulletins are installed on the ESXi host by running the following command.

7. Reboot the host.

Ever try to install VMware Tools and after hours and hours the install won’t seem to complete and from the GUI Going to End VMware Tools Install doesn’t work. Well here is how you kill the install from the Console of the ESX Server your VM is running on.

First thing we need to do is get the ID of the VM.

That’s it! You should now be able to manually install the tools on the VM.