I recently had some issues trying to install the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) using the latest Update 1 release of vSphere. The first problem I had was that even though I had the VMware Client Integration Plugin installed, on launching the install wizard it would not get detected. I had seen this issue in the past …

Recently I had some fun and games with what should have been a pretty routine process of upgrading a customer’s vCenter 4.1 Server to vCenter 5.0 Update 1, as it turned out it was far from straightforward. The main background to my issue was that when performing the upgrade of the database, the progress bar did not …