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

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System software for this cluster 
vxRai1 4.5.229-10764994 
Instal led on 6/13/2019 
A hyper-converged infrastructure appliance that combines VMware compute, networking and storage into one single system for ease of 
deployment and management 
Unpacking composite bundle 
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• COMPOSITE_UNPACKcomplete 
Action: Unpacking composite bu ndle 
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Message: unzipped the entry bundles/VMware-vCenter-Server-App fam the composite bu ndle package. 
Action: Unpacking composite bu ndle 
Message: unzipped the entry from the composite bundle package. 
Action: uploading bundle: 45xzipwith total size: 4258 Ma. 
Message: uploading bundle: NTXRAlL_COMPOSlTE-4.7.410-26262335 for 4_5xzipwith total size:4258 MB.

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

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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