Tag Archives: sso

vCenter 6 – Create new licenses operation failed for the entity with the following error messages: storage error

As discussed in previous post, I have one SSO domain that is rather large (multiple vcenters, multiple external PSC servers, thousands of VMs). I have been adding my vSphere 6 licenses to prep for our hosts upgrades when I ran into an error. I tried to add another license and I got a Web Client… Read More »

Right-Sizing SSO Domain

In a previous post, I lamented over whether a SSO domain should be big or small. I gave various pros and cons for having it either way, but I wanted to discuss how to try to design your SSO domain to be the right size (whether that is large or small) for your environment. One… Read More »

Big SSO Domain or Small?

I just recently completed the upgrade of the vCenters at my work, and it was a doozy. This was the most amount of planning that has been done for any vCenter upgrade, and mostly because the topology you go with you are pretty much stuck with. I had a dozen or so vCenters spread out… 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 »