After procrastinating for a while, I finally started the upgrade process in my home lab to go from vSphere 6.0 to 6.5. The PSC upgrade was smooth, but I hit a roadblock when I started the upgrade process on the vCenter Server appliance.
After going through some of the first steps in the process, I ran into the following error when trying to connect to the source appliance.
The exact text of the error reads:
“Unable to retrieve the migration assistant extension on source vCenter Server. Make sure migration assistant is running on the VUM server.”
I had forgotten that I even had Update Manager deployed. Because my lab is small, I generally applied updates manually to my hosts via the CLI. What I do remember, however, is being frustrated that I had to deploy a full-scale Windows VM to run the Update Manager service.
