Hi folks, forgive me if this is the wrong place.
We are running vCenter Server 5 Essentials with three hosts all running ESXi 5.0.0, 504890. I attempted to install a VM with the guest operating system Windows 2012 Server, however I learned it will not install and repeats itself rebooting over and over again. Anyways after some googling I learned I needed a patch to allow Server 2012 to be a guest O/S however I don't have update manager installed on my VCenter Server (which is virtualized 2008 R2 Server).
So I proceeded to download the VMware vCenter Installer (Version 5.0) onto my VCenter server and attempted to install update manager, however I get this error message
"The vCenter Server is incompatible with the VMware vSphere Update Manager you are installing. Please selection a compatible vCenter Server."
At first I was mistakenly using version 5.5 Installer and getting the error. However I went back and downloaded the correct version (5.0) to match my environment and I still get the same error. Then I read briefly that you cannot use update manager on vCenter virtualized server. So I tried using another virtual server but still receive the same error message.
Any info to shed some light or point me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. I thank you in advice for your time and help!
Message was edited by: Cbaur88
Version of VMware Installer I downloaded and tried 5.0.0-1343691 my version is 5.0.0-504890 did I just answer my own question? Do I need to physically update those three hosts with a newer build and or version of ESxi? Thanks!
