Category Archives: vSphere

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 »

vCenter 6 Upgrade: 1603 Error

I completed our lab vCenter upgrades during this last post. A few weeks after that effort, VMware release vCenter 6.0u1b. Since there was still time to evaluate this release, I went ahead and tried to upgrade from 6.0u1 to 6.0u1b. One vCenter went off without a problem, another vCenter was not so lucky. During the installation,… Read More »

vCenter 6 Upgrade Saga

I upgraded one of our first vCenters yesterday to 6, and boy was it a doozy. The vCenter was at 5.5u2D, but it has been upgraded over the years (probably starting from 3.x) so it has carried over some old crud. This post will cover all of the KBs that I had to use (be… Read More »