Undocumented VCenter, SSO Master Password unknown

Hi all

Been trawl by lu much community to get a handle on this so I thought I would ask this question to get a concise answer.

I wonder to upgrade a VCenter 5.1 U2 to V6. There is no documentation of the VCenter pre-installed and there is no trace of the master password from SSO. I have reset the password of admin@system-domain so I am able to get into the web console. As mentioned in other posts, this password is completely separate from the master password which cannot be changed without knowing what the master password is currently.

What I read the easiest method for me to upgrade seems to be to delete and reinstall SSO then reconnect VCenter for her.

Apparently most difficult method is to build a new VCenter, create local switches, as we use vDS, migrate guests for switches the on the current vcenter, migrate to the VirtualCenter new hosts and then re-create the VDS.

I watched the flings on the labs.vmware.com site and it is one that might help, but it does not work for v5.1 to 6 and the sounds that he has problems with vDS.

An option I have thought and would like to validate is the following: if I build a new with a new SSO installation VCenter which is actually documented, can I join a VCenter V5.1 for installation of SSO V6? If I could spend the vcenter 5.1 to 6, while the old and the new are part of the same domain for authentication, I could Vmotion between VCenters so so technically. Is this a valid option, or I expect the product more than what she can really do? I'm looking for the least disruptive method to get up to date

Thank you

Hayden

Thought that I respond to this and that everyone knows how we have progressed.

After a lot of searching on Google and trial and error, I found a blog by V E XPERTISE written by Fabian Lenz, who helped me to get this working properly. Now I can migrate my systems intact vDS to a new installation of VSphere VCenter 6 the link to the article is http://www.vxpertise.net/2013/06/migration-of-a-distributed-switch-to-a-new-vcenter-important-things-to-know/

Essentially the issue I had was that I was using the logical order of import of the SVD and not in the right order. It is a big help because he'll lead us around the issue of 'master' password SSO all forgotten and allows us to upgrade to a new installation of VCenter essentially because we were eager to make.

I hope this helps someone else out there

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