VCenter 5.5 – How to upgrade it to have an embedded Platform Services Controller

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I am attempting to upgrade my vCenter Server Appliance installation from 5.5 to 6.0. I am receiving the following errors when attempting to preform the upgrade.

Cannot upgrade vCenter Server Appliance with an external Platform
Services Controller because the Platform Services Controller is
deployed as part of an embedded deployment model. Upgrade the vCenter
Server Appliance instance to vCenter Server Appliance with an embedded
Platform Services Controller

Upgrade the vCenter Server Appliance instance to vCenter Server
Appliance with an embedded Platform Services Controller

I have been searching high and low on information on how to add the Embedded Platform Services Controller to my current vCenter installation but have been striking out.

Is anyone able to point me in the right direction on this?

Best Answer

After contacting VMware we found out that the installation of 5.5 U3b I was on was not compatible for an upgrade to 6.0 with out a modification because support for SSLv3 protocol is disabled by default on on 5.5 U3b version.

There was a work around for this, but VMware did not recommend it, or support it. If anyone is interested in what this work around is I have added it.

On vCenter Server Appliance:

  1. Open file /usr/lib/vmware-sso/conf/server.xml in the machine where vCenter 5.5 Update 3b is installed.
  2. Create a backup copy of the file.
  3. Remove the tag sslEnabledProtocols="TLSv1,TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2" from the below line in the server.xml file:
  4. Restart the vmware-stsd service using the following command: service vmware-stsd restart
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