VMware 6.7 PSC&VCSA convergence

[drunkenbloke]

Hi all,

Over the past week I have upgraded our VMware platform PSC and VCSA appliances to 6.7U3Q. The last step of the upgrade was to converge the PSC and VCSA as we want to upgrade again shortly to version 7. I am unable to run the convergence in the GUI as the option is greyed out for all of our VCSA appliances.

I have not yet touched upgrading the hosts yet so they are on 6.5U2 this is because certificates are going to be expiring soon so I  wanted to get the PSC/VCSA part of the work finished so I could update the certificates before moving onto the hosts.

We have three sites with a PSC at each site and a number of VCSAs all linked together.

Site A

1 PSC

3 VCSA

Site B

1 PSC

2 VCSC

Site 3

1 PSC

1 VCSA

Looking at the topology view all the appliances show up but there are no connections showing between any. I have found across sites that port 389 is currently not allowed between VCSA appliances on one site and the PSC appliances on the other sites.

Is this network access possibly why I cannot use the GUI to converge the appliances or is there something else that I need to be looking at ?

[drunkenbloke]

Just to add the blocked port 389 is now open and working but has not resolved the issue with the converge to embedded task being greyed out.

[drunkenbloke]

It looks like I have spoken to soon, about an hour after the access was opened the option to converge the appliances is not available.

[virtsysadmin]

This is a complex environment if they are in same SSO  - "We have three sites with a PSC at each site and a number of VCSAs all linked together"  - not sure Site A/B and C are separate SSO domains.
If they are same you need to take offline snapshots of them all before proceeding or site wise.

Is there differences in the PNID and Host names ?  mostly lower and uppercase letters?  If so I would suggest you to use the command line utility.

https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2019/02/understanding-the-vcenter-server-converge-tool.html