I have a physical vCenter 5.5 U2e server that I'm trying to migrate to the vCSA 6.0 virtual appliance using the migration tool outlined in the link below.
vCenter Server Migration Tool: vSphere 6.0 Update 2m - VMware vSphere Blog
I cannot complete the migration as it fails in the same manner every time I attempt it. The resulting vCSA boot with an error message and I cannot access the server using the web-client. There appears to be a missing .crt file, however I cannot find the information to resolve this. My system is using the self-signed certificates.
The (repeatable) process for my situation is this:
1) Start Migration Assistant on existing vCenter 5.5 server
2) Begin Migration using the 6.0 Update 2m utility from an auxiliary node
3) Migration process fails with a message stating:
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Firstboot script execution error.
Encountered an internal error.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/vmidentity/firstboot/vmidentity-firstboot.py", line 202, in main
vmidentityFB.boot()
File "/opt/vmware/lib64/vmidentity_firstboot_core.py", line 189, in boot
self.generateCertificates()
File "/opt/vmware/lib64/vmidentity_firstboot_core.py", line 427, in generateCertificates
self.copyCertificates()
File "/opt/vmware/lib64/vmidentity_firstboot_core.py", line 439, in copyCertificates
shutil.copy2(self.__root_cert_x509_path, self.__ssl_root_cert_x509_path)
File "/opt/vmware/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 130, in copy2
copyfile(src, dst)
File "/opt/vmware/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 82, in copyfile
with open(src, 'rb') as fsrc:
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/vmware-sso/keys/ssoserverRoot.crt'
This is an unrecoverable error, please retry install. If you run into this error again, please collect a support bundle and open a support request.
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I've read many articles that imply that DNS is the typical culprit, however believe DNS to be available on the local subnet and functioning normally for my system (nslookup and dig both returned normal results from my vCSA server).