Symptoms
ESXi 7.0/8.0 hosts fail to boot during installation using Auto Deploy with UEFI Boot option, showing the error message:
Shutting down firmware services...
Using 'simple offset' UEFI RTS mapping policy
Example:
Resolution
Please contact your Hardware Vendor to update physical server Firmware (BIOS) version to the latest.If you are already using the latest Firmware (BIOS) version, please follow the below steps:
Connect to vCenter Server using VMware PowerCLI. For more information , see vSphere PowerCLI Administration Guide.
# Connect-VIServer -Server vCenter_IP -Protocol https -User administrator@vsphere.local -Password <password
Example:
# Connect-VIServer -Server vcsa-01a.corp.local -Protocol https -User administrator@vsphere.local -Password ******
Output should look like:
Run the following PowerCLI Command:
# Set-DeployOption "extra-boot-args" "norts=1"
Note: If the command didn't get the ESXi Host boot (same issue), please run the following PowerCLI command in addition to the first one:
# Set-DeployOption "extra-kernel-args" "-U"
