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4 Verify that permissions are set correctly.
5 Verify that passwords are current and not set to expire soon.
6 Verify that JDK 1.6 or later is installed on the vCenter Server machine.
7 Verify that the sqljdbc4.jar file is added to the CLASSPATH variable on the machine where
vCenter Server is to be upgraded.
If the sqljdbc4.jar file is not installed on your system, the vCenter Server installer installs it.
8 Verify that your system database source name is using the Microsoft SQL Server Native Client 10 or
11 driver.
9 If you choose to remove the DBO role and migrate all objects in the DBO schema to a custom
schema, you must grant the required permissions.
a Grant the required permissions to the vCenter Server user in the vCenter Server database.
b Grant the required permissions to the user in the MSDB database.
10 For vCenter Server 5.5, run the cleanup script.
a Locate the cleanup_orphaned_data_MSSQL.sql script in the ISO image and copy it to the
Microsoft SQL server.
b Log in to your database.
n
For Microsoft SQL Server Express, open a command prompt.
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For Microsoft SQL Server, log in to a Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio session as
the vCenter Server database user.
c Run the cleanup script.
For Microsoft SQL Server Express, run:
sqlcmd -E -S localhost\VIM_SQLEXP -d VIM_VCDB -i
pathcleanup_orphaned_data_MSSQL.sql
For Microsoft SQL Server: run the cleanup_orphaned_data_MSSQL.sql contents.
Make sure that you are connected to the database used by vCenter Server.
The cleanup script cleans any unnecessary data in your vCenter Server database.
11 Make a full backup of the vCenter Server database.
Your database is prepared for the vCenter Server upgrade.
Use a Script to Create and Apply a Microsoft SQL Server Database Schema
and Roles
In this method of configuring the SQL database, you create the custom schema VMW, instead of using
the existing dbo schema. You must also enable Database Monitoring for a user before you install
vCenter Server with an embedded or external Platform Services Controller.
This method requires that you create new database roles and grant them to the database user.
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