Restore Windows vCenter Server with existing Virtual Distributed Switch
Recently, assisted one of my customer to troubleshoot a failed Windows vCenter Server resulted from an upgrade failure. What you would need is all the credential accounts such as vCenter SSO, Windows Administrator and your MS SQL account. Also a copy of your existing vCenter Server database. We logged a case with VMware support and gone through the logs. Refer to the logs location here . The one major log would be the vmdird.log. This was showing error 49. The VMware Service Lifecycle Manager service remain freeze at Starting status. This will run a vmon process in your task manager. Check out the all services name here . For those not aware, starting from vCenter Server 6.5, the vCenter Server Services are no longer a standalone services. We spend a lot of time trying to reinstall, and running through kb fixes but it did not help. We decided to do a uninstall and encounter error 1603. We were not able to get over this error. Instead, we did another vCenter Server installation on ...