During upgrade of vCenter 5.5 to 6.5, error: 'Installation of component VCSServiceManager failed with error code '1603'. Check the logs for more details'.
After referring to KB 2127519. We confirmed .NET Framework was installed but not the entire package. We installed the entire package, but when trying to run the installer again we received a Setup Interrupted message requesting we Restore the vCenter 5.5, and external DB.
We re-verted the snapshot successfully, but our DB backup was not recent (upgrade took place on Friday), and our backup has since been overwritten.
Currently we are at pre-upgrade vCenter 5.5 but with an upgraded DB at 6.5. The vCenter Server service will not start, and I cannot get past the SSO login portion of the wizard. vpxd logs show:
2018-03-05T12:09:08.763-05:00 [06448 info 'utilvpxdVdb'] [VpxdVdb::SetDBType] Logging in to DSN: vCenter Connection SQLNCLI 10 with username vpxuser
2018-03-05T12:09:08.907-05:00 [06448 info 'Default'] [VdbSchemaLoader::LookupSchemaFromDB] Loaded schema and index information from DB
2018-03-05T12:09:08.907-05:00 [06448 error 'Default'] Database version id '650' is incompatible with this release of VirtualCenter.
