Error 1603 when upgrading vCenter 6.0u1 to 6.0u2

Recently ran across this one: 2016-06-22 10:23:19.878-07:00| vcsInstUtil-3634789| I: MonitorStatusFile: Other process terminated with 0, exiting 2016-06-22 10:23:19.878-07:00| vcsInstUtil-3634789| I: MonitorStatusFile: Process exited with a ‘0’ exit code; no status monitoring so assuming success 2016-06-22 10:23:19.878-07:00| vcsInstUtil-3634789| I: MonitorStatusFile: called parse callback 0 times 2016-06-22 10:23:19.878-07:00| vcsInstUtil-3634789| I: MonitorStatusFile: No need to wait for process … Read more

Error 1603 while upgrading vCenter 5.5 to 6.0u1

Upgrading vCenter recently from vCenter 5.5 to 60.u1 and the upgrade would consistently fail displaying two error messages. First it would display “An error occurred while invoking external command: ‘Database instance not defined for mssql provider’” Then the installation would appear to proceed until it got to installing the VCSServiceManager. Then I would get Error … Read more