How to fix a vCenter 6.7 to 7.0 U3h upgrade failure

Introduction Sometimes you can find some issues in older environment while upgrading that you haven’t seen before. This blogpost is about one that I’ve never seen before, but luckily is very easy to fix.We were upgrading the our environment from 6.7 U3x to 7.0 U3h. The upgrade eventually failed on …

In-place upgrade of 2012R2 DCs to 2019

Although this blog is mosty centered arount VMware related topics I sometimes find myself presented with other challenges in the field. In this case I needed to upgrade a couple of Windows domain controllers to Windows Server 2019. However because the existing servers were bare metal and I had no …

Incorrect PostgreSQL object ownership prevents vCenter upgrade

Recently I had to upgrade a vCenter Server Appliance with embedded PSC from version 6.5 U2e to 6.7 U2c. It seemed a pretty straightforward process like the upgrades I’ve done before. But this time the upgrade failed because of an issue with the PostgreSQL database. I examined the logfiles and …