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

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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Site Recovery Manager deploy with vSphere Replication.

In this blog, there are simple steps to install SRM and VR appliance [version is 8.5.x]. Prerequisites: Appropriate version of Platform Services Controller and vCenter Server are installed on both sites. Compatibility matrix link: https://docs.vmware.com/en/Site-Recovery-Manager/8.5/rn/srm-compat-matrix-8-5.html DNS entries to be updated with the FQDN of SRM and VR appliances. Note the address of the Platform Services Controller instance for both…

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