VMware vCenter server is the core management server for the vSphere platform. vCenter Server is offered either as a Windows installable (deprecated) or as a Virtual Appliance (pre-installed), running Linux. All forms of vCenter Server use the same web-based GUI.
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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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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One extremely important advantage of the VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) is its native PostgreSQL (vPostgres) database. With the embedded database and VCSA, it is now possible to support installations which scale to the maximum capability of vCenter, without additional Operating System or Database licensing costs. Incumbent with the use of VCSA, however, comes a
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Integrating VMware vCenter Server with Microsoft Active Directory has always been a requirement for enterprise deployments of VMware vSphere. Before SSO, In VMware vCenter 5.0 and prior, the Windows Server (VM or physical) where vCenter was installed was required to be a member-server of an Active Directory domain. In those days all Administrators of the
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