Upgrade vCenter 5U1 to 5.1 fails

[rmackenziesah]

Hi,

trying to upgrade my vcenter server to 5.1 but getting the below message

error 29114 cannot connect to db

I have tried this with a local express DB and a full 2008 R2 DB server and get same results. After trying that ive tried building a new vCenter and i still seem to get the same error. Can anybody point me in the right direction to fix this?

Thanks

[spravtek]

Hi,

It would be better to start your own thread, though it might look like the same problem, sometimes small differences can make it a completely unrelated issue ...

But ...

Did you run through these two KB's:

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=203583...

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=203631...

Are you using the latest release, vCenter 5.1a? There is a fix in this update for this error. (ref: http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/10/update-to-vsphere-vcenter-server-version-5-1-0a-released.htm...)