Hi All,
Planning to upgrade the vCenter from 5.5 to 6.0 in a small Development environment. Customer has a separate SQL 2012 server to hold the vCenter 6 DB. Below is what I have done,
1. Backup and restored the vCenter 5.5 SQL 2008 express DB to the new Full SQL 2012 server. Backup and restore was successful.
2. Created the x64 DSN using the native client 11 and tested the connectivity, which is perfectly working.
3. Followed the KB article: VMware KB: Migrating the vCenter Server database from SQL Express to full SQL Server
4. Detached and Attached the DB also.
Now, when I am installing the new vCenter 6.0 and connecting to the new SQL 2012 DB it is throwing below error, Not sure what is it pointing to?
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VMware vCenter Server
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A 5.x version of the vCenter Server database has been detected. You may only upgrade the 5.x database by upgrading the vCenter Server connected to that database.
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OK
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Thanks,