I wanted to update our vCenter Server in the test lab to 5.5 and it's failing at the very beginning, at SSO upgrade. The update starts and after a short while it begins to rollback actions.
After digging into the logs, the only thing i found is one error inside the vminst.log, inside the "Import tool" block:
VMware Single Sign-On-build-1302472: 09/23/13 11:26:30 Entering VmSetupImportLookupServiceData VMware Single Sign-On-build-1302472: 09/23/13 11:26:30 Entering function: VmSetupGetFQDNOrIP VMware Single Sign-On-build-1302472: 09/23/13 11:26:30 Entering function: VmSetupGetFQDNOrIPFromRegistry VMware Single Sign-On-build-1302472: 09/23/13 11:26:30 Leaving VmSetupGetFQDNOrIPFromRegistry, Error: 0 VMware Single Sign-On-build-1302472: 09/23/13 11:26:30 Leaving VmSetupGetFQDNOrIP, Error: 0 VMware Single Sign-On-build-1302472: 09/23/13 11:26:30 Launching ssolscli from C:\Users\THEISS~1\AppData\Local\Temp\\exported_sso.properties endpointUrl is created:https://FQDN:7444/sso-adminserver/sdk endpointUrl is created:https://FQDN:7444/ims/STSService?wsdl endpointUrl is created:https://FQDN:7444/sso-adminserver/sdk endpointUrl is created:https://FQDN:443/sdk endpointUrl is created:https://FQDN:12443/vmwb/logbrowser endpointUrl is created:https://FQDN:12443/authentication/authtoken endpointUrl is created:https://FQDN:9443/vsphere-client Intializing registration provider... Getting SSL certificates for https://:7444/lookupservice/sdk Host name may not be null Return code is: InvalidInput -2
Seems there's some config value missing, regarding the FQDN for the lookupservice, but i'm grepping like wild inside %Program Files%\VMware\Infrastructure\SSOServer\ and its subfolders, but i don't find any line which could help.