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AndrewAdvnetsol
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vCenter 6.5 to 7.0 Upgrade

I am trying to upgrade from vCenter 6.5 server appliance to 7.0 server appliance. During stage 2 I get the following error during the Pre-upgrade check results. "Error Invalid root credentials for source appliance (IP of vCenter 6.5): Authentication failed."

I have confirmed that I am able to login to the web interface with the password. Also the password worked when I put it in during stage 1 of the upgrade.

I also tried going from 6.5 to 6.7 and got the following error.
Error: "Could not authenticate to source appliance OS on address (IP of vCenter 6.5).
Resolution: "Verify that source appliance OS credentials are correct."

I have verified that they are correct.

Any ideas or do I just need to spin up a new vCenter Appliance OS and move my hosts to it?

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PileusJdobbin
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Log in via SSH and change the root password. I've run into this on several occasions.

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Alfista_PS
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Hi,

Login to WEB is with other credentials as in SSH where is needed to root.

You can try if you can log to the appliance (IP-FQDN:5480) with you root credentials if you have the good root password.

 

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RajeevVCP4
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change the root password then try 

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virtsysadmin
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Both errors with 6.7/7.0 are indicating an issue with root password. is the password too long ? try setting something simple with applicable criteria and try. also check the version trying to upgrade is back in time upgrade ?

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/67339



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