Tag: upgrade

SSL3 GET RECORD

John Borhek VMware, VMware vCenter, VMware vSphere February 18, 2016

I was doing an in-place upgrade of a vCenter 5.5 to vCenter 6 (Windows), when I encountered an unusual error, that didn’t seem to have a relevant KB article or much other information. This was most definitely NOT a database incompatibility, as was indicated by the second error. It turns out that the solution is
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Upgrading to VCSA 6 fails

John Borhek Linux, Operating Systems, VMware, VMware vCenter, VMware vSphere January 22, 2016

I began an upgrade of the VMware vCenter Server Appliance from 5.5 to 6 for a small (in VMware’s own terminology ‘Tiny’) vSphere environment of 3 hosts and about 30 VMs. I certainly didn’t anticipate any trouble beyond the usual hassles associated with upgrading an infrastructure-level service like vCenter. Unfortunately, carefully following VMware documented procedures
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