vCenter Server upgrade issues

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• vCenter Server Upgrade

  
  Hello

  I want to upgrade the server vCenter Server to vCenter Server 5.1 5.1.0b 1 update. Any literature on this?

  Thanks in advance,

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  Step by step upgrade from VMware vCenter Server to vCenter Server 5.1 5.1 update 1 - YouTube

• vCenter Server Upgrade version 5.0 to 5.1

  I have 3 vCenter servers (VM) who manage the 3 environments across different sites (Dev/Test/QA, Prod1 and Prod2).

  I intend to first upgrade in Dev/Test/QA environment. My Server, DB & MUV vCenter vCenter server resides on the unique virtual computer.

  1. I need to create separate VMS for vCenter Server Inventory Service & MUV.

  2. in a large environment, I have to separate the Server DB & consolidate all instances here? Best practices please.

  3. create separate SSO VM.

  To do this, how will be my approach? Can I restore my backups of DB and can be used in the new environment?

  Or everything will be totally new configuration?

  It will work. Like other components, you have the choice to use SQL Express or a dedicated DB for the SSO server.

• vCenter Server upgrade to version 5.0

  Hello

  I would like to know during the upgrade to vCenter Server 5.0 calls a new license key or he use of the existing version license key.

  I have vCenter Server 4.1 installed so Standard 6 hosts ESXi 4.1 installed with vSphere Enterprise Plus licenses each with 2 CPU. I plan to upgrade my environment of virtualization to vCenter Server 5.0 and vSphere Enterprise Plus 5.0, please someone can me brief on conditions of license - can I use the vCenter 4.1 existing licenses vSphere 4.1 upgrade to version 5.0, so I don't want to buy new licenses.

  Hoping to receive information about my queries.

  Kind regards

  Nikhil

  No, not if you have a valid support and subscription.

  You must visit the portal of licenses to upgrade the license (I think).

  I myself did last week and I'm sure that even if I already had a job entirely vCenter 4.1, I was required to enter the new license v5.0 file.

• (Redirected) Server upgrade issues

  I need to upgrade my server.

  I've been using a 400SC for about 12 years with Server 2003 and it has served us well.

  I have 8 client machines.

  The server is a domain controller and a file server for 2 programs.

  No mail electronic or other uses.

  I am trying to decide what machine to update and continue as we are for several years.

  I hope I can shoot with Server Essentials of 2012.

  Ideas or recommendations.

  I don't want RAID.

  Don't like a single HD in my server.

  Best of this post in the Forum servers, here:
        
  http://en.community.Dell.com/support-forums/servers/default.aspx
       
  Bev.

• vCenter Server install issues?

  We plan our migration of VI 3.5 to vSphere 4.  Our current vicenter server is running on Windows 2003 with a SQL 2000 database.

  I want to do the following and know if it is possible.

  1 virtualize our current viserver and wipe the hardware it is running on.

  2. install Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise x 64

  3. install Microsoft SQL Server 2005 x 64

  VCenter will work on Windows 2008 x 64?  I tried searching for this information, but for some reason any cannot arrive at this answer.

  Thank you

  Kris Turner

  Yes vCenter 4.0 is compatible with the 2008 x 64 according to the compatibility guide - http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r40/vsp_compatibility_matrix.pdf

  If you find this or any other answer useful please consider awarding points marking the answer correct or useful

• Update/migration - vCenter Server 5.0 on windows-> vCenter Server Applicance 6.0.0 U2?

  Hello, I'm trying to upgrade vSphere for a customer of 5.0 to 6.0.0 U2. I don't foresee any problems with the upgrade of the host, but I'm having a terrible time to vCenter Server upgraded. SSL problems, inventory Service won't start/db issues, etc. This is a very simple configuration with only two hosts, a DS3524 for the shared storage and a vCenter server running on a windows virtual machine. I am simply considering implementation installation vCenter's existing disposal and replacement with a new device. What, exactly, would I lose, do this? vMotion, HA and DRS is put to the top, but nothing fancy or automated.

  Thanks in advance.

  -arthur

  Because your environment is small, I think that a better option is really build a new vCenter from scratch and then guests are leaving the former vCenter to the new... of course, you will lose all historical data (statistics, task, events) of the old host and you will need to re - create clusters on the new vCenter configurations.

  Here is a KB showing how to move an ESXi to one vCenter to another: VMware KB: move a managed ESX ESXi host to a vCenter Server to a different Server vCenter

• VMWare v6.0 to 6U1 or 6U2 Upgrade - external PSC - 1603 errors in vCenter Server

  Hi all

  I was wondering if someone met the upgrade a version 6.0 VMWare install to U1 or U2 upgrade and received a 1603 error.

  The installation runs correctly on the external PSC, but when running against the vCenter Server fails and has a 1603 error and did a restore.

  The VCSServiceManager component installation failed with error code "1603". Check the logs for more details

  I tried all the other threads suggesting to have .net installed 3.5, the ipv4 stack and database permissions but are all there.

  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  For those who have encountered this problem in the future, was the way I solved this:

  Question has been connected to the VMWare SysLog Collector Service. There is a problem with the new syslogcollection MSI being able to upgrade, uninstall or reinstall on the legacy.

  Best way to solve this problem is to remove the reference to the old service of library of Windows Setup syslog collector. The way I did it was to use the Windows Installer CleanUp legacy.

  Post this, remove installation held as scheduled and transmitted "installation VCSServiceManager.

  If you come across this issue - you can test it by trying to run the msi syslogcollector contained in the directory of files binary vCenter.

• VCenter 6.0 upgrade vCenter Server 6.0 best practices?

  Can someone help me best practices for best practices of vCenter server 6.0

  These KB should help you to best practices and upgrade guide

  https://pubs.VMware.com/vSphere-60/topic/com.VMware.ICbase/PDF/vSphere-ESXi-vCenter-Server-60-upgrade-guide.PDF

  Deployment Guide

  https://www.VMware.com/files/PDF/Techpaper/VMware-vCenter-Server6-deployment-guide.PDF

  Best practices

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=2107948

  and new features have the peculiarity of cross

  http://featurewalkthrough.VMware.com/#! / vsphere-6-0

• Upgrade to vCenter Server to 5.5u2d (5.5.0 build-2183111)

  Hi guys, I just wanted to check with you somethings, I need to run the below to be in compliance with the last safety:

  Upgrade to VMware vCenter Server 5.5u2d (5.5.0 build-2183111) or later, our current version is 5.5.0 build-1945274.

  
  

  I previously ran updates when you move the vCenter server, but did not have an upgrade on the same server, it is just a matter of downloading the latest version of the software running in custom mode, the upgrade of each of the parties to vCenter and be careful not to overwrite the database?

  
  Thanks in advance

  I previously ran updates when you move the vCenter server, but did not have an upgrade on the same server, it is just a matter of downloading the latest version of the software running in custom mode, the upgrade of each of the parties to vCenter and be careful not to overwrite the database?

  Yes, just make sure backup your base of data and/or your vCenter VM snapshot and to proceed with the custom installation wizard.

• The upgrade of our guests 5.0 ESXi and vCenter Server 5 and 5.5 Enterprise Plus

  We are the 4 upgrade hosts of ESXi 5 to 5.5

  We add 4 more guests with own ESXi 5.5 installed

  We are also upgrading our vCS 5 in the vCSA 5.5

  Using Enterprise + licenses

  Question: I'm trying to understand the best way to achieve this transition.  4 guests run about 100 virtual machines and 4 guests we add are clean slates.

  That's what I think... Please help me guys

  1. once the 4 new hosts are installed in the Datacenter clean running ESXi 5.5 I will deploy the vCSA ovf and register 4 guests with the Linux-based device.

  2. now, I have 4 new 5.5 ESXi hosts registered and running with vCSA 5.5 but I still have my old 4 guests with ESXi 5 and registered to the old vCS about 100 virtual machines running WIndows

  3. at this point I think stop on my older hosts 4 virtual machines and remove them from the vCenter Server inventory Windows and everything just their registration with the new vCSA

  4. Will be all my virtual machines or transferred with the hosts if I close them and put the hosts in maintenance mode?

  5. now, I should have all 8 guests registered with my new vCSA.  But the original 4 hosts have yet to be upgraded to ESXi 5.5

  6 move 100 virtual machines to the new 4 hosts running ESXi 5.5 and upgraded the 4 former hosts.

  7. now, I should have 8 guests with ESXi 5.5 using the vCSA

  See you soon!

  Pretty much.

  To make things easier, you can deploy the EGGS for vCSA in your current vCenter (if I remember correctly import an OVA using vCenter allows you to set certain options that should be set to the vCSA shell). After making sure that the vCSA online & configured, you can then install ESXi on all your new hosts, add them to a cluster in the vCSA and put a few trials of virtual machines on there to confirm the network setting is configured correctly. Once it's done (and assuming that the old and the new hosts use the same shared storage) you can stop the vCSA, remove it stock Windows vCS, please write it on one of your new hosts and turn on. You have now two environments (5.0 and 5.5). Next if you disconnect a host from 5.0 vCS (with virtual machines running on it), you can then connect it to the vCSA 5.5. Assuming that the vSwitchs standard networking of the exchanges that are the same name in both environments, you now can vMotion VMs between host 5.0 and 5.5 cluster. At this time, you can repeat with all remaining hosts until everything has been made the transition without service interruption. This will leave a lot of old objects in your old 5.0 vCS, but if that is getting trashed it isn't a big deal.

• Upgrade memory of VCenter Server

  Hello

  Can anyone tell how to change the memory in my server vcenter?

  It has already been upgraded to version 10 and the use of the customer is no longer an option.

  Welcome to the community,

  This is probably the main reasons for the warning in the documentation anyway, there are two ways to change the settings of the vCenter Server VM. If you have 10 of VMware Workstation in place, you can connect to the host on which is inscribed the vCenter Server VM and manage settings, another way is to use a PowerCLI script to do this. Last but not least, you can simply change the VM manually .vmx file through the CLI (console or SSH). In this case, remember to reboot the virtual machine after editing the file .vmx (see http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1026043). In all cases you must stop the server vCenter Server to change the settings. This can be done by connecting directly to the appropriate of ESXi host using the vSphere Client.

  André

• The upgrade to vCenter Server 5.5 U1 beat vCO AD Plugin

  Hey guys,.

  I've recently updated vCenter Server (under Windows) to 5.5 U1, and so vCO has been upgraded to the latest version as well. It seems that the AD plugin has been upgraded to 1.0.4 - 763 and now can not be configured correctly. The vCO newspapers give the following:

  2014-05-12 12:11:14.141 - 0400 [WorkflowExecutorPool-thread-1] ERROR {[email protected]: Configure Active Directory server: 8a6abc61-9f1e-4b75-84e3-5f7ed902af57:1d74889645f12cdf0145f133c1e20009} [MSPluginFactory] condition of credentials are corrupted.

  java.lang.RuntimeException: org.bouncycastle.crypto.InvalidCipherTextException: block corrupted buffer

  at ch.dunes.util.PasswordEncryptor.decrypt(PasswordEncryptor.java:76)

  at ch.dunes.util.EncryptHelper.newDecrypt(EncryptHelper.java:61)

  Furthermore, when I try to set up an advertising server by using the plug-in, I have the following problem, showing me one of the configuration objects is null - 'ConfigurationManager '.

  2014-05-12 12:11:14.251 - 0400 [WorkflowExecutorPool-thread-1] WARN {[email protected]: Configure Active Directory server: 8a6abc61-9f1e-4b75-84e3-5f7ed902af57:1d74889645f12cdf0145f133c1e20009} Script Runtime error [WorkflowItemTaskRunner] on the workflow: Server Configure Active Directory / 'Configuration' (item1) update: ReferenceError: 'ConfigurationManager' is not defined. (Workflow: Configure the Active Directory Server / update of Configuration (item1) #10)

  2014-05-12 12:11:14.351 - 0400 [WorkflowExecutorPool-thread-1] ERROR {[email protected]: configures Active Directory server: 8a6abc61-9f1e-4b75-84e3-5f7ed902af57:1d74889645f12cdf0145f133c1e20009} [SCRIPTING_LOG] [Server Configure Active Directory (12/05/14 12:11:12)] ReferenceError: 'ConfigurationManager' is not defined. (Workflow: Configure the Active Directory Server / update of Configuration (item1) #10)-null

  We do not use LDAPS, LDAP standard, so I don't see why we would receive an exception of encryption, and the 'ConfigurationManager' null configuration object is interesting.

  Is it possible to reset the configuration of the plugin, re-establish a connection, and try again? I prefer not to reinstall this vCO, as we have done a lot of configuration.

  Uninstalling and reinstalling the 1.0.4 plugin does not seem to solve the problem. I should come back 1.0.3 or can it?

  Thanks for all your help.

  Thank you, Christophe, who complained of being 'ConfigurationManager' being missing (according to the first message in this thread). That said...

  Rename/Delete the

  C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\Orchestrator\app-server\conf\plugins\AD.xml and

  C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\Orchestrator\app-server\server\vmo\conf\plugins\AD.xml

  and re - configure the plugin (1.0.3 in this case) AD, seems to have allowed the AD connection is restored. At that time, we were see errors in the vCO related to plugin configuration of the client (it seems that all the old cruft of 1.0.4 has not been completely cleaned), so I upgraded the plugin from 1.0.3 to 1.0.4.

  I can now browse through the structure of the AD in vCO as expected. A terrifying upgrade, plugin-breaking!

• How to upgrade vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 to 5.5 Update 1

  Hi, just wanted to know how to upgrade vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 to 5.5 Update 1. Is it with Crossover?

  Hello

  Connect to your device from vCenter:

  https:// : 5480

  Click on the update tab,

  Check the updates and then install updates.

  Takes a long time. Restart when it's over.

  And you're done

  Tim

• Upgrade SQL Express to vCenter server

  Hello

  In one of our environment vSphere 4.1, we have SQL SERVER 2005 Express edition. We need to upgrade to SQL 2008 R2 Express exdition.

  After SQL guys, below must be performed;

  1) take backup of database,

  2) uninstall of SQL SERVER 2005 Express

  3) install SQL 2008 R2 Express

  4) restore the SQL 2008 R2 Express database

  Above activity will take approximately 2 hours.
  

  
  

  I want to know what will be the impact on the current server vCenter and the guests/vms.

  
  

  Thank you

  Mihir
  

  Hello

  your VM would work fine and your hosts will also be fine. But you will lose access to your vCenter server. The Impact will not be on the vCenter server and may require a downtime.

  Thank you
  Avinash