Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Installing vCenter 6.0.0 gives: Installation of component VCSServiceManager failed with error code '1603'. Check the logs for more details.

I'm rolling out a new vCenter 6.0.0 install from scratch to test our environment on it, and quickly ran into a show stopper:

Installation of component VCSServiceManager failed with error code '1603'. Check the logs for more details.

I was installing on a fresh new Windows 2012R2 server with all the updates, but I hadn't installed the .NET 3.5 feature. 

The release notes from VMware mention this exact error, but in the context of an ipv4 address issue, so that wasn't much help, as all of my ipv4 addressing was correct. 

After a bit of poking around, I noticed that a 1603 error in a MSI is often due to .NET being missing.

After installing .NET 3.5 and updates, the install worked properly.

There is no mention of .NET being required in the Release Notes, the Windows Requirements, etc. 

Hopefully that saves someone a bit of time. :-)

Now let's see what that new Web Client performs like. 

10 comments:

  1. I'm installing .Net 3.5 on my 2012 R2 server as I write. If it works... You Da Man!!! (I'm guessing it will).

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  2. I just finished installing .Net 3.5 on my Windows 2012 R2 server. It allowed me to install vCenter Server 6.0 successfully. Thanks for the info!!! ...and no thanks to VMware for not mentioning that little factoid!

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  3. Yeah, I'm starting to notice that vVMware's KB articles are not as accurate as I'd like them to be - I have 3 or 4 regular errors that all have KB articles with VMware, and each article states that the error is fixed in 5.1, or 5.5 U2, etc.. yet they still happen.

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  4. I spent all day trying to get vCenter 6 to install on my 2nd vCenter. The first one I apparently installed .NET 3.5. I created a template which the second one was deployed from and I missed that.

    Thank you for making me feel a touch less crazy...

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  5. Have the same problem but .Net installed and nothing :(

    any help? :(

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    1. Worked to me, but it was impossible using the same server. But worked after I deplopyed a new one. First of all, add a .NET 3.5 Framework and then windows updates, reboot e voilá!

      Thanks!!!

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  6. can also be if you have disabled IPv6 on NIC https://www.pickysysadmin.ca/2016/06/24/error-1603-when-upgrading-vcenter-6-0u1-to-6-0u2/

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