Hi
Our vCenter Server 5.1 is not healthy anymore. It can't talk properly to SSO anymore, reregister with SSO fails and ADAM gives errors as well. VMware Support concluded that a reinstall of vCenter is needed and I was given a few KBs with tips.
While performing the reinstall, vCenter failed with ADAM errors and long story short, the underlying Windows is unusable. Thanks to snapshots we were able to fallback, but current status is that we can't reboot the vCenter Server anymore because it would probably refuse to start.
Now we're preparing a full reinstall but trying to keep the SQL Database and the data inside. For a "normal" vCenter re-install I have all the papers that explain how to. What I'm missing is the following info:
- Our environment is fully Auto Deployed. Now I see that every host has some kind of cache directory on the vCenter Server. If I would reinstall vCenter Server, this directory will get lost. Will the ESXi hosts simply rebuild this cache directory at their next reboot?
- We have a few hosts with specific requirements that have the Nexus 1000V. How will they behave if vCenter is reinstalled keeping the existing database?
- In the initial deployment we were brave enough to replace the certificates with self generated certificates. There is now no requirement for that anymore. Will using the same DB still require me to re-create the self-signed certificates?
Any other tips?
Gabrie