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esxcli can't find any namespaces

Hello everyone,

Today I encountered a pretty weird problem trying to install an update(Storcli). esxcli wasn't working as intended as seen below:

[root@Lotos-Stambolyiski-H1:/vmfs/volumes/62e3e792-ee3a0ddc-8031-4c5262591d45] e
sxcli
Usage: esxcli [options] {namespace}+ {cmd} [cmd options]

Options:
  --formatter=FORMATTER
                        Override the formatter to use for a given command.
                        Available formatter: xml, csv, keyvalue
  --screen-width=SCREENWIDTH
                        Use the specified screen width when formatting text
  --debug               Enable debug or internal use options
  --version             Display version information for the script
  -?, --help            Display usage information for the script

[root@Lotos-Stambolyiski-H1:/vmfs/volumes/62e3e792-ee3a0ddc-8031-4c5262591d45]

This is an output from a server running ESXI 7.0.3 (OEM Customized for Fujitsu there are also installations which are for Dell). There are no namespaces hence I can't use esxcli for any of it's purposes. The server itself hasn't ever had updates of any kind before. The funny thing is this image that's on the server has a problem whit esxcli. While a server running on the exact same image does not have the problem:

[root@Exhibition-H2:/opt/lsi] esxcli
Usage: esxcli [options] {namespace}+ {cmd} [cmd options]

Options:
  --formatter=FORMATTER
                        Override the formatter to use for a given command.
                        Available formatter: xml, csv, keyvalue
  --screen-width=SCREENWIDTH
                        Use the specified screen width when formatting text
  --debug               Enable debug or internal use options
  --version             Display version information for the script
  -?, --help            Display usage information for the script

Available Namespaces:
  daemon                Commands for controlling daemons built with Daemon SDK
                        (DSDK).
  device                Device manager commands
  elxnet                elxnet esxcli functionality
  esxcli                Commands that operate on the esxcli system itself
                        allowing users to get additional information.
  fcoe                  VMware FCOE commands.
  graphics              VMware graphics commands.
  hardware              VMKernel hardware properties and commands for
                        configuring hardware.
  iscsi                 VMware iSCSI commands.
  network               Operations that pertain to the maintenance of networking
                        on an ESX host. This includes a wide variety of commands
                        to manipulate virtual networking components (vswitch,
                        portgroup, etc) as well as local host IP, DNS and
                        general host networking settings.
  nvme                  VMware NVMe driver operations.
  rdma                  Operations that pertain to remote direct memory access
                        (RDMA) protocol stack on an ESX host.
  sched                 VMKernel system properties and commands for configuring
                        scheduling related functionality.
  software              Manage the ESXi software image and packages
  storage               VMware storage commands.
  system                VMKernel system properties and commands for configuring
                        properties of the kernel core system and related system
                        services.
  vm                    A small number of operations that allow a user to
                        Control Virtual Machine operations.
  vsan                  VMware vSAN commands

[root@Exhibition-H2:/opt/lsi]

The only difference is those 2 are different hardware configurations the second one is Fujitsu RX100 S8 while the first one is Fujitsu Primergy 1310 M3

Is there any fix for this issue?

Does anyone have tips I could use to resolve the issue?

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