Single Sign-On installation for non-English upgrade of vCenter Server (2037976)

The SSO installer halts on German, French, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese Windows operating systems due to an incompatibility with the Microsoft Software Installer.

To work around this issue, use VMware's command-line options to silently upgrade the SSO installation from 5.1 to 5.1.0a or 5.1.0b.

Note: Other components of vSphere 5.1.0a or 5.1.0b can be successfully upgraded using the UI. However, VMware recommends using the independent installers for upgrades rather than the simple installer.

To use the command line for the upgrade:

1. On the Windows system running vSphere 5.1 SSO, launch a command-line prompt as Administrator or as a user with privileges to modify/install SSO.
   
   
2. From the command-line, navigate to the folder containing the 5.1.0a or 5.1.0b SSO installer executable, VMware-SSO-Server.exe.
   
   
3. To perform a silent upgrade, run the command:
   
   executable_name /S /v"/L*v log_location /qn"
   
   For example, run this command to perform a silent SSO command-line upgrade:
   
   VMware-SSO-Server.exe /S /v"/L*v \"%temp%\vim-sso-msi.log\" /qn"

Additional Information

To be alerted when this article is updated, click Subscribe to Document in the Actions box.