{"id":264,"date":"2020-08-04T10:25:46","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T08:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vmoller.dk\/?p=264"},"modified":"2020-08-04T10:32:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T08:32:24","slug":"vcenter-server-is-non-operational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vmoller.dk\/index.php\/2020\/08\/04\/vcenter-server-is-non-operational\/","title":{"rendered":"vCenter: update installation failed, vCenter Server is non-operational"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/vmoller.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/update-failed-1024x289.jpg\" alt=\"update installation failed, vCenter Server is non-operational\" class=\"wp-image-265\" width=\"768\" height=\"217\" title=\"update installation failed, vCenter Server is non-operational\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vmoller.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/update-failed-1024x289.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vmoller.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/update-failed-300x85.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vmoller.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/update-failed-768x217.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vmoller.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/update-failed.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>Problem: update installation failed, vCenter Server is non-operational<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I recently ran in to this error upgrading my homelab vCenter from 7.0.0.10400 to 7.0.10600:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>vCenter: update installation failed, vCenter Server is non-operational<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Luckily, the fix was easy &#8211; all I needed to do was to delete the file &#8220;\/etc\/applmgmt\/appliance\/software_update_state.conf&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So you just need to SSH to your vCenter and execute this command: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><code>rm \/etc\/applmgmt\/appliance\/software_update_state.conf<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/vmoller.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ssh.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-268\" width=\"830\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vmoller.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ssh.jpg 830w, https:\/\/vmoller.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ssh-300x130.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vmoller.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ssh-768x334.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 830px) 100vw, 830px\" \/><figcaption>The fix: rm \/etc\/applmgmt\/appliance\/software_update_state.conf<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently ran in to this error upgrading my homelab vCenter from 7.0.0.10400 to 7.0.10600: vCenter: update installation failed, vCenter Server is non-operational Luckily, the fix was easy &#8211; all I needed to do was to delete the file &#8220;\/etc\/applmgmt\/appliance\/software_update_state.conf&#8221; So you just need to SSH to your vCenter and execute this command: rm \/etc\/applmgmt\/appliance\/software_update_state.conf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11,12,7],"tags":[16,24,15,4],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vami","category-vcenter","category-vcsa","category-vsphere","tag-updating","tag-vcenter","tag-vcsa","tag-vsphere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vmoller.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vmoller.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vmoller.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vmoller.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vmoller.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/vmoller.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/vmoller.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vmoller.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vmoller.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vmoller.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}