SSL3 GET RECORD

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 buried in the vCenter 6.0 U1b Release Notes

On Windows OS:

Open file C:\ProgramData\VMware\CIS\runtime\VMwareSTS\Conf\Server.xml.

Remove the tag sslEnabledProtocols=”TLSv1,TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2″ from the below line in the server.xml file: <Connector SSLEnabled=”true” sslEnabledProtocols=”TLSv1,TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2″

Restart VMwareSTS and VMwareIdentityMgmtService services.

Start the SSO service.

Of course, in true VMware style, you will find no services with the names “VMwareSTS,” “VMwareIdentityMgmtService,” and/or “SSO,” so after you edit the file, restart all VMware and VirtualCenter services.

Here are the steps:

Edit the file: C:\ProgramData\VMware\CIS\runtime\VMwareSTS\Conf\Server.xml

Remove the text: sslEnabledProtocols=”TLSv1,TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2″

The file should look like this now:

Now restart all of the VMware and VirtualCenter services.