VxRail upgrade stuck at 66% & won’t fail during unpacking composite bundle upload – upgrade hung

Screenshot from the VxRail Composite Bundle Upgrade Recovery walkthrough showing System software for this cluster.

Have you ever been upgrading VxRail and the composite bundle upload stalls at 66% during the unpacking composite bundle bootstrap?  It happened to me recently.  Here is a quick fix that has worked for me in the past I wanted to share. However; I cannot stress enough that if you are not experienced enough or do not feel comfortable, please engage DellEMC support.

Steps:
First putty into the VxRail Manager
Log in as mystic and SU to Root
Execute the following commands:
# psql -U postgres mysticmanager -c ” update virtual_appliance set upgrade_status=’HAS_NEWER’ where id=1;”
UPDATE 1

# psql -U postgres mysticmanager -c “delete from composite_upgrade;”
DELETE 0

# psql -U postgres mysticmanager -c ” update virtual_appliance set upgrade_status_response=’ ‘ where id=1;”
UPDATE 1

Screenshot from the VxRail Composite Bundle Upgrade Recovery walkthrough at step 2; the adjacent article text explains that # psql -U postgres mysticmanager -c ” update virtual_appliance set upgrade_status_response=’ ‘ where id=1;”UPDATE 1.

Summary:
As you can see it is a quick and easy process.  However, I cannot stress enough to engage DellEMC support if you are not comfortable with this fix.  Once again, I hope y’all find this article useful.

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