version 73o upgrade resulted unsuccessful. So file based backup recovery was done. 

the Appliance recovery failed at 97% during the stage 2 of recovery process, though we were able to troubleshoot appliance and vCenter appliance is operational except the applmgmt interface. applmgmt still thinks the appliance is not configured so the URL keeps redirecting to /configurev2/.

KB article 88614 didn't help. Any ideas on where the appliance gets its status configured or not? flat file or ldap or database....

VMware Support is looking at the vc-support files...its been a week.