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It turned out that the 6.0 vCenter server had some duplicate ROOT and INTERMEDIATE certificates in the TRUSTED ROOT STORE.

Somehow some root CAs were not imported with the certificate thumbprint as the ALIAS for the certs; they were in fact the file name used for the certs when they were brought to the vCenter.

As such, there were two sets of the same certificates with different aliases.

This was causing the upgrade to explode when attempting to start the VPXD service. (...at 58%.)

PSC's did not appear to have the same issue; only the VPXD (virtual center server service) seemed to have this issue.

It is abolutely a bug that having two copies of the the same trusted root and intermediate certificates would cause a service to not start.

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