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Tuesday 9 April 2013

P2V of Vcenter 5.1 and its issue

have done p2v of vcenter server frorm VMware convertor
post p2v issue found unable to login to vcenter server as vcenter services is not able to start so
resovle this issue from kb article provided by vmware  http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/documentLink.do?externalID=2036170&micrositeID=null

Resoultion


To resolve this issue: 
  1. Click Start, right-click Command Prompt, and click Run as administrator to open a command prompt as an administrator.
  2. Set the Java home.  The default location is C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\jre Type:
    set JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\jre
  3. In the system where SSO is installed, locate and navigate to the SSO server installation directory. By default, this directory is located at C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\SSOServer\Utils.
  4.  Run this command:

    Note: This command replaces the masterPassword with the SSO Password  (admin@system-domain) rsautil manage-secrets -a recover -m <masterPassword>
  5. Restart the SSO service.
  6. Restart the VMware VirtualCenter Server service. 

1 comment:

  1. Thank you!!! We had to P2V vCenter 5.1 after hardware failure and after booting the vm the virtual center service would not start. This worked. Thanks

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