vcenter 4.1 to 5.1 database upgrade hung

[tdubb123]

vcenter 4.1 to 5.1 upgrade is getting hung. sso and inventory service installed fine. I went through the installation as simple install and not custom.

Its stuck saying vcenter databsae can take up to 15 mins but its been over  2 hours.

The vcenter db logs are over 90gb. db is over 20gb

any idea what is going on?

[NavalgundRaj]

Hi,

Have you gone through the upgrading procedures.are all met?

Please verify below and HCL for 5.1

Pre-upgrade considerations and recommendations

Before upgrading, consider these points:

• Prepare for the vCenter Server installation by recording the values that the vCenter Server system requires. For further information, see Required Information for Installing or Upgrading vCenter Single Sign On, Inventory Service, and vCenter Server in the vSphere Upgrade Guide.
  
  
• If you do not intend to use evaluation mode, make sure that you have valid license keys for all purchased functionality. License keys from vSphere versions prior to version 5.0 are not supported in vCenter Server 5.x. If you do not have the license key, you can install in evaluation mode and use the vSphere Client or vSphere Web Client to enter the license key later.
  
  
• Close all instances of the VMware Infrastructure Client, the vSphere Client, and the vSphere Web Client.
  
  
• Before you install or upgrade any vSphere product, synchronize the clocks of all machines on the vSphere network. See Synchronizing Clocks on the vSphere Network in the vSphere Upgrade Guide.
  
  
• In-place upgrade to vCenter Server 5.1 is not supported on Microsoft Windows XP.
  
  
• Ensure that your vCenter Server 5.1 is capable of running on a 64-bit operating system.
  
  
  
• If the vCenter Server upgrade fails, no automatic rollback occurs to the previous vCenter Server version.
  
  
• The data migration tool is not supported for vCenter Server 5.1. You cannot directly migrate an existing vCenter Server to a new machine during an upgrade to version 5.1. You can migrate an existing vCenter Server to a new machine during an upgrade to version 5.0, and then perform an in-place upgrade from version 5.0 to version 5.1.
  
  
• Ensure that NetBios over TCP/IP is enabled in TCP/IP v4 settings on the Windows server.
  
  
• Ensure that all domains that are to be added as Identity sources are added to the DNS suffix list of the NIC.

Regards

Basavaraj.R navalgund

Banavalg@yahoo.com

[Dee006]

Hi Tdubb,

Do you able to see any error logs in vpxd and vcenter installation logs?