I'm trying to migrate vCenter Server; so, I setup a new Windows machine and setup SQL Server 2012 (r2?) on it and restored the database and created users/logins to match what's on the old machine. From the vCenter Server 5.5 iso file that is mounted as a DVD, I ran each of the components. It seemed to go fine until I got to vCenter Server and chose to use an existing database. It found the DSN for the database in question. But then I got an error: "The generated JDBC URL failed to connect to the vCenter Server database." The URL is like: jdbc:sqlserver://MyServer;databaseName\=virtctr
So, that is using SQL authentication. When I setup the DSN, I did click the test button at the end and it said success.
I also tried the fully qualified domain name form like: jdbc:sqlserver://MyServer.MyDomain;databaseName\=virtctr
I have tried a couple of things that I found searching the web for this error like restarting the SQL service, but those didn't work. Anyone know how to fix this?
by the way, the vimtool.log file shows: Error: The driver could not establish a secure connection to SQL Server by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption. Error: "SQL Server did not return a response. The connection has been closed.".
I found that the host was only supporting TLS 1.2; so, I added 1.0,1.1, but that didn't make any difference.
