vCenter upgrade from 6.7 to 7.0U3g my fail with error ‘VMware tools drivers is not initialized’ if step level upgrade was performed in the past [Workaround]

Kinshuk Tripathi

Recently at a customer site encountered an issue which I didn’t see before. while initially it looked like a VMware tools drivers issue against the vCenter 6.7 appliance (Photon OS), however it was far away from that, and it can become an upgrade blocker was not in my dream either. I tried upgrading the vCenter…

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vCenter upgrade at Stage 2 failed with message ‘An error occurred while starting service ‘hvc’ 

Kinshuk Tripathi

Recently came across with a situation where upgrade to vCenter version 7.x was failing from version 6.7 with message ‘An error occurred while starting service ‘hvc’ This issue arises in Stage 2 which is an essentially a mid-stage of an upgrade process, and an admin can’t resume the upgrade without rolling back the source environment back to…

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