{"id":223,"date":"2014-08-19T23:14:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T21:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/?p=223"},"modified":"2014-08-19T23:22:13","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T21:22:13","slug":"surviving-vcac-6-0-install-tips-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/?p=223","title":{"rendered":"Surviving VCAC 6.0 install: Tips &#038; tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When installing vCAC 6.0, please do follow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kendrickcoleman.com\/index.php\/Tech-Blog\/how-to-install-vcloud-automation-center-vcac-60-part-1-identity-appliance.html\" target=\"_blank\">This wonderful HowTo by Kendrick Coleman<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But, when an install fails, it&#8217;s not nice. See it like shooting a musquito with a 17th century musket: it takes 5 minutes reloading to take a new shot after firing at a target you can not see. Some tips that helped me:<\/p>\n<p>Preparing an installation:<br \/>\n&#8211; Make the service account member of the local administrators group. Makes life a lot easier when creating files, IIS operations etc<br \/>\n&#8211; Make the service account sysadmin on your SQL server, at least while creating the databases. I let the installer do that job of creating the database, btw<br \/>\n&#8211; Run the setup.exe file as an administrator<br \/>\n&#8211; Run the great powershell script provided by Kendrick as an administrator<\/p>\n<p>When the install did fail however, how to reset your musket:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Clear the c:\\users\\&lt;installingaccount&gt;\\download folder of the .exe <strong>AND .XML <\/strong>file<br \/>\n&#8211; Delete the vCAC database on your SQL server<br \/>\n&#8211; Delete the Repository, VCAC and WAPI applications in your Default Website through IIS manager<br \/>\n&#8211; Delete the RepositoryAppPool, VCACAppPool and WAPIAppPool in the ApplicationPool\u00a0through IIS manager<br \/>\n&#8211; Delete the c:\\program files (x86)\\vmware folder (don&#8217;t foret to close the logfile too, otherwise deletions will fail \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n<p>And have another go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When installing vCAC 6.0, please do follow This wonderful HowTo by Kendrick Coleman But, when an install fails, it&#8217;s not nice. See it like shooting a musquito with a 17th century musket: it takes 5 minutes reloading to take a new shot after firing at a target you can not see. Some tips that helped &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/?p=223\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Surviving VCAC 6.0 install: Tips &#038; tricks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5hbZj-3B","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}