Tag Archive: VCSA 6.7

vCenter Server Services Fails To Start After Upgrade To 6.7 U2c

A while back I did a VMware vCenter Server upgrade, version 6.7 to version 6.7 U2c. The upgrade completed successfully but some services including e.g. vmware-vpxd didn’t start. Checking the vCenter Server Appliance Management Interface (VAMI) I could see that quite a few services with Startup Type Automatic was not running and service “VMware vCenter-Services” …

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Upgrade VMware vCenter Server Appliance Via VAMI

If I’m not completely mistaken VMware introduced the Update vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) using the vCenter Server Appliance Management Interface (VAMI) in vSphere 6.0 U1 but don’t hold that against me. Anyway this post will tell you how to go about performing the update which is really simple to do. Just follow the below process …

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Remediate ESXi Hosts Via vSphere Update Manager Not Working

After upgrading VMware vCenter Server to version 6.7 U2c I ran into a problem with vSphere Update Manager (VUM) when trying to both Check Compliance and Remediate ESXi hosts. After clicking the CHECK COMPLIANCE shown in the above figure I got error: “VMware vSphere Update Manager had an unknown error. Check the events and log …

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VMware vCenter Server 6.7 Resource Requirements

Just a quick blog post about the vCenter Server 6.7 Appliance resource requirements in terms of vCPUs, RAM and Storage per deployment size option. And yes, this is mostly for my personal documentation purposes since the information can also be found in the VMware vSphere 6.7 official documentation, Anyway, the following Deployment Sizes are available: …

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