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  1. Welcome to vSphere-land! » vSphere 5.1 Link-O-Rama

    […] vCenter Server, ESX/ESXi hosts, and vShield Edge Appliances for vCloud Director 5.1 (KB Article) vSphere 5.1 Generally Available – Important Upgrade Considerations (Long White Virtual […]

  2. Doug B
    Doug B at |

    Michael, thanks for the timely post and quick rundown of some of the updated products and dependencies.

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  3. Ben Loveday
    Ben Loveday at |

    Great post mate, nice summary of the release and known issues!

    Reply
  4. Complete guide to all the essential vSphere 5.1 links | Wintual

    […] (KBTV Video) Installing VMware vCenter Server 5.1 using the Simple Install method (KBTV Video) vSphere 5.1 Generally Available – Important Upgrade Considerations (Long White Virtual […]

  5. Marco P
    Marco P at |

    Michael,

    I' trying to get my lab VCSA 5.0.0.5480 upgraded, also having trouble with a CA Signed cert. Trying to revert to default certs to see if this will do the trick.

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    1. @vcdxnz001
      @vcdxnz001 at |

      Hi Marco, I've updated my article with a couple of useful links including Troubleshooting the CA Signed Certs. That KB in particular is a must read in my opinion. I hope it helps you. Please let me know if it does.

      Reply
  6. Aaron DiLapi
    Aaron DiLapi at |

    Spent many hours on the phone with VMware support yesterday about an upgrade failure in the vCenter Server installer:

    Error 26002. Setup failed to register VMware vCenter Server to VMware vCenter Inventory Service

    Here is VMware's analysis so far:

    %temp%vcregtool.log reports the below error:

    [2012-09-11 19:53:57,701 main ERROR com.vmware.vim.dataservices.vcregtool.RegisterVC] Cannot read VC private key file C:ProgramDataVMwareVMware VirtualCenterSSLrui.key

    java.lang.NullPointerException

    at com.vmware.vim.dataservices.vcregtool.RegisterVC.loadVcPrivateKey(RegisterVC.java:478)

    at com.vmware.vim.dataservices.vcregtool.RegisterVC.loadVcProviderInfo(RegisterVC.java:300)

    Based on early reports I'm hearing of certificate trouble especially with CA signed certs (AD 2008 R2 in my case) I'm thinking this is all related. I'll follow-up this post if I manage to get anywhere. I'm interested in hearing if others are able to bypass issues by restoring the default cert (hope you backed yours up!).

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    1. Josh Coen
      Josh Coen at |

      Aaron, I ran into the same problem. I read on one of the communities post that someone was able to workaround it by replacing their CA signed certs with the original self-signed certs. I haven't tried it yet.

      Reply
    2. Tim Mori (@tim_mori)
      Tim Mori (@tim_mori) at |

      I ran into this error trying to get past a different one (http://communities.vmware.com/message/2116952#2116952)

      I attempted to create slightly different certs for vCenter and Inventory service by giving each a different Organization name in the subject of the csr. While this worked fine on 5.0 after restarting all the services. I got the 26002 error during the upgrade. Sort of a success because I did get past the 29107 error.

      There definitely seems to be an issue with either Windows 2008 R2 CA signed certificates, or the CA itself.

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  7. Mark Verwoerd
    Mark Verwoerd at |

    An other issue:

    VMware Converter 5.0 will crash when connecting to vCenter 5.1: http://communities.vmware.com/message/2113969

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    1. @vcdxnz001
      @vcdxnz001 at |

      Thanks for the heads up. I'd expect a new version of Converter soon. Also the PowerPath/VE patches are expected shortly too.

      Reply
  8. Mark Verwoerd
    Mark Verwoerd at |

    I found a workaround:

    Make a VM on ESXi 5.1.0 running ESXi 5.0.0, and use that Virtual ESXi 5.0.0 for Converter 5 to P2V your physicle machines. Gotta like VMware 🙂

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  9. Kernel Panic in vShield Manager after Upgrade to 5.1 « Long White Virtual Clouds

    […] and are upgrading their lab environments.  I wrote about a number of considerations in my article vSphere 5.1 Generally Available – Important Upgrade Considerations. However a specific issue has come up with some upgrades of vShield Manager  to 5.1 that you need […]

  10. VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast – Show Notes #203 – What’s New in vSphere 5.1 Storage | VMTN Blog - VMware Blogs

    […] [Michael Webster Blog] vSphere 5.1 Generally Available – Important Upgrade Considerations […]

  11. vSphere 5.1 Gotcha with Single Sign On (SSO) « Long White Virtual Clouds

    […] source discovery error (2034374), which is one of the errors that I spoke about in my article vSphere 5.1 Generally Available – Important Upgrade Considerations. When you run into this error you will have to sign into vSphere Web Client using the […]

  12. Upgrade to vSphere 5.1 - Step 1 | VMwaremine - Mine of knowledge about virtualization

    […] See great article from Michael Webster site about upgrade considerations  […]

  13. Upgrade from vSphere 5 to vSphere 5.1 - Part 3.1 | VMwaremine - Mine of knowledge about virtualization

    […] See great article from Michael Webster site about upgrade considerations  […]

  14. Upgrade from vSphere 5 to vSphere 5.1 – Part 4 - VMware vSphere Update Manager | VMwaremine - Mine of knowledge about virtualization

    […] See great article from Michael Webster site about upgrade considerations  […]

  15. vSphere 5.1 Link Documentação « Osvaldoneris's Blog

    […] the Simple Install method (KBTV Video) Installing ESXi 5.x in VMware Workstation (KB Article/Video) vSphere 5.1 Generally Available – Important Upgrade Considerations (Long White Virtual Clouds) ESXi 5.1 Upgrade fails with the error: Cannot execute upgrade script on […]

  16. Tim S
    Tim S at |

    Has anyone figured out how to do this yet? Is it any better with newer versions of 5.1? I am getting ready to upgrade and these comments are making me pretty nervous since I have CA signed certs on Win 2008 also.

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    1. @vcdxnz001
      @vcdxnz001 at |

      Hi Tim, We have figured out how to do the certs. Firstly you'll need to make sure your certs have a bit strength of 2048 or greater. Then you can have a look at the article on changing out certs as relevant at the following location – http://longwhiteclouds.com/2012/10/27/updating-ca…. The upgrade process itself should be better with 5.1b, which has recently come out.

      Also thanks for prompting me to update the article. I missed the update when the SSL articles were published. I wish you luck with the upgrade. I would recommend you test it in your lab or offline if you can before doing production. Good luck.

      Reply
  17. Aaron DiLapi
    Aaron DiLapi at |

    My issues were resolved with the release of 5.1.0a and I have been running vCenter 5.1 smoothly since the release of the updated installer. I suspect 5.1.0b further improves the upgrade situation.

    Reply
  18. » Disabling vSphere 5.1 Single Sign-on (SSO) – Don’t do it! Long White Virtual Clouds

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  19. VMware Interview Question | mannc14
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