Good Afternoon,
1. For a couple of weeks now I have been working on completing what should be a fairly straight forward task of upgrading a fully integrated 6.0 VCSA to 6.7 VCSA.
2. Stage 1: Deploy vCenter Server Appliance with an Embedded Platform Services Controller completes without issue.
Image 1.1. Upgrade Stage 2: Data transfer and appliance setup is in progress
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3. Stage 2 completes two of the three tasks and then complains that the source vCenter has been powered off. This seems like a problem with the workflow. I've tried powering the old vCenter back on and retrying the operation but it simply fails again in error.
Image 1.2 VCSA 6.7 Upgrade Failure Error:
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4. The new appliance has an error which indicates the IMPORT failed. It still has the old IP address on the console. When I reboot the target appliance it switches to the new Appliance FQDN and IP address but the appliance is clearly broken. The console still shows Upgrade Import error:
Image 1.3 VCSA 6.7 VCSA appliance
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5. When I logon to the VCSA 6.7 at https://FQDN.TLD/:5480 I see the following error message:
Image 1.4 VCSA 6.7 Appliance Broken message.
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I think I am doing everything correctly. I don't know if there is another way to go forward. I want to say that several years back there was talk of being able to stand up a new appliance. (Standalone) and them manually import the configuration? If anyone has seen this problem and have a solution I am all ears.
PS. I have a ticket open with VMware support and I have provided them with the logs but I have not received any actionable responses from them yet. Other than try powering on the previous appliance to complete the final step.
Thank you.
