Hi,
just a comment to say we converted our 2 vcenters on production to VCSA.
Migration went well from Oracle Database to SQL Server then VCVA to migrate the vcenter to the appliance.
We fell into 3 issues:
1- in VPX_PARAMETER, the key ‘VirtualCenter.AutoManagedIpV4’ existed in two version differing by the case.
Oracle had zero problem with it, SQL Server choked hard. Deleting the key with the null value resolved the problem.
2- Stats were inserted into the VPX_HIST_STAT1_* but nothing on the STAT2 showed up.
After analyzis, it seems the ORACLE version of rollup_stats differs from the procedure from other databases.
On sql server and postgresql, the rollup looks for a device with name ” whereas oracle rollup just take the device with id =1. This device is special and its counters are used as default values to compare with.
On postgresql after migration, the device_null_id was not found and no counter were created for this reason.
Renaming the vpx_device id=1 name to ” fixed the problem (at the time, the value seems to be a subtle combination of blank chars).
3- vcsa update 3 has a bug that prevents the collection of certains counters.
The problem is acked by vmware to be fixed in 5.5u3a.
At this time setting stats collection to level 2 is working ok, any level higher results in no data collected.
We’re now running at this level waiting for the fix.
Hope our ride helps people avoid those pitfalls.