Monthly Archives: March 2016

vCenter 5.5 SSO to 6 PSC Upgrade 1603 Error: Unable to call to Component Manager; Failed to register service in Component Manager

Upgrading from 5.5 SSO to 6.0 PSC is usually pretty easy but I did have one error worth mentioning. First I got the generic 1603 Error. I then looked through the logs and saw this: “Unable to call to Component Manager: Failed to register service in Component Manager; url:http://localhost:18090/cm/sdk/?hostid=5e7af582-c545-11e5-a7c6-005056b8654e, id:04d333a2-e2bb-41c8-8ae6-39598604ddc1” After working through it with… Read More »

vSphere Replication Error: The virtual machine VM has failed validation and cannot be configured for replication: Host is not connected

As part of our vCenter upgrade plan, we wanted to re-install the vCenter on a Windows 2012R2 box but re-use the SSL and the database by following the following KB. During the re-install, my team forgot to bring the SSL certs over. Once vCenter was up they noticed that all of the hosts were disconnected.… Read More »