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Heads Up! vCloud Automation Center 6.0 installation fails

January 9, 2014

Today i ran into a problem during a vCloud Automation Center 6.0 IaaS component installation. The installation didn’t actually start, just got an error mesage after finishing the initial wizard meaning no component is installed.
We used the Complete instllation option because this was a proof of concept environment and we didn’t see any reason for divide the IaaS components on different servers.

Screen Shot 2014-01-09 at 19.48.43

One of the prerequisites before you can perform the installation is to install Microsoft .Net Framework 4.5. 

Screen Shot 2014-01-09 at 19.44.10

My customer was running Windows Server 2008 R2 with .Net Framework 4.5.1 and the installation didn’t accept this version and the installation failed immediately.

To solve the problem we had to:

  • Uninstall .Net Framework 4.5.1
  • Install .Net Framework 4.5

After that, the installation completed successfully.

Has anyone completed the IaaS installation when using .Net Framework 4.5.1 i would be happy to receive some information.

I’ll update the blog post when i find a solution or a public statement from VMware.

A good summary of vCloud Automation Center installation tips by Viktor van den Berg can be found here.

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  1. VMware vCAC 6.0 installation tips - viktorious.nl - Virtualization & Cloud Management

    January 13, 2014 at 12:08 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment

    […] Important: when running Windows Update you will probably automatically install Microsoft .NET 4.5.1 on the Windows server. I faced some problems, that were not directly traceable: after removing .NET 4.5.1 and installing .NET 4.5 the problems disappeared. Note that prerequisite checker that is included in the installation process will not report any messages on this, although the installation will fail. .NET 4.5 is available here. This problem was also reported by Magnus Anderson at vcdx56.com. […]

  2. vCloud Automation Center – vCAC 6.0 – Proof of concepts – lessons learned | bmspeak

    January 16, 2014 at 3:34 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment

    […] IIS was then restarted with the IISRESET command and the vCAC Prerequisite Checker ran smoothly thereafter. VCDX56 – Magnus Andersson has described it in more detail here. […]

  3. vCloud Automation Center 6.0 SP1 released | VCDX56

    February 14, 2014 at 8:04 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment

    […] is still no support for .Net 4.5.1. I wrote a blog post about that as well, which you can find here, a while […]

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