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  • 1.  Upgrade VCSA from 6.5 to 7 U2 issues

    Posted Jan 13, 2025 02:48 PM
    Hello,
     
    I'm working to upgrade an out-of-support VMWare farm to a supported version. The target will be Vcenter version 8 but in the middle I will pass from a Vcenter 7 U2 to mantains all appliances (Vreplication and SRM) in a version supported by the matrix.
     
     
     
    During the upgrade from 6.5 to 7 U2 I had some issues. Firstly, during the phase 2 of migration, I had receive an error related to the Update Manager. In some post, I read a workaround to remove the update manager extention before the upgrade. This works but after, when the new VCSA run for the first boot, I receive an error related to the VUM database
     
    Error
    Failed to setup VUM database
    Resolution
    Search for these symptoms in the VMware knowledge base for any known issues and possible workarounds. If none can be found, collect a support bundle and open a support request.
    Error
    Failed to create VUM database
    Resolution
    Search for these symptoms in the VMware knowledge base for any known issues and possible workarounds. If none can be found, collect a support bundle and open a support request.
    Error
    Error while configuring vSphere Update Manager firstboot.
    Resolution
    Search for these symptoms in the VMware knowledge base for any known issues and possible workarounds. If none can be found, collect a support bundle and open a support request. 
    I found some workaround to solve this (reset VUM DB on source, drop vumuser from postgres db) but nothing changes.
     
    Can someone help me please?
    Thank you


  • 2.  RE: Upgrade VCSA from 6.5 to 7 U2 issues

    Posted Jan 21, 2025 09:30 AM

    Hello @timeshok :

    You can alternatively do : 

    • remove your esxi hosts from your current vCenter
    • install a new vCenter (the target version in one of the esxi)
    • join the esxi hosts to the new vCenter

    Like this you can avoid all issues related to upgrade.




  • 3.  RE: Upgrade VCSA from 6.5 to 7 U2 issues

    Posted Jan 21, 2025 12:11 PM

    Hello,

    Can you retry with this KB please

    https://www.nakivo.com/blog/how-to-upgrade-to-vmware-vcenter-7-and-vsan-7/ 




  • 4.  RE: Upgrade VCSA from 6.5 to 7 U2 issues

    Posted Jan 21, 2025 12:11 PM

    Hello,

    Can you retry using this link: https://www.nakivo.com/blog/how-to-upgrade-to-vmware-vcenter-7-and-vsan-7/