A note on #vCenter 5.5 to 6.5 #upgrade – interesting logs and locations to check for troubleshooting #vexpert

Thefluffyadmin vexpert, vmware May 15, 2018

If you are migrating a large 5.5 vCenter environment to latest and greatest sexy VCSA using the Migration-Assistant , it can be a tedious wait sometimes. Also things can go horribly wrong. Here are some logs and their locations I like to monitor during upgrade activities. (note: This only applies to the Migration Assistant for
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A note on #vCenter 5.5 #upgrade and the size of the DB partition on the target #VCSA appliance #vexpert

Thefluffyadmin Troubleshooting, vexpert, vmware May 8, 2018

Ran into an interesting issue during a 5.5 to 6.5 migration. During phase 2 of the installation (final configuration of the target VCSA), this would fail with the error: "Insufficient space on the appliance partition to accommodate all the data for upgrade data option 'core'" Digging into the VCSA logbundle, various logs reported an issue
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