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Is there a way to restart the vcenter installation without having to re-install?

There are a couple of service issue which can be fixed manually. But I need the vCenter to restart the installation, instead of re-install because it fails again and I have to fix the services manually again.

If I can restart the installation, then the installation may succeed as I've fixed the service issues. Re-install doesn't work.

I'm trying to figure out how I can restart the installation. I get the following error right now.

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Hennes
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The post VCSA 7.0.2 Upgrade Installer - Stage 2 Export Partition seems to address the same problem.

The solution was :

After Stage 1 is done, close the installer and open the VAMI interface on the new deployment of vCSA: https://<IP>:5480/configure/. You can now do the Stage 2 from your browser, and set a export directory that is big enough (for instance /storage/updatemgr/)

Apparently the installer is using a "v2" of the configuration (https://<IP>:5480/configurev2/) where the export directory can't be set.

harrymc
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Ok so hours of trial and error I kept getting the error “unable to get deployment status.” Like the OP is describing. I followed harrymc’s instructions but still wasn’t working. Turns out my DNS needed an A and PTR record for the new vCenter to get past step 2 of the installation. Now it is all good :-)

Matthew Hodge
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