Cleanup your DB before the upgrade is not a “must” but this is a good moment. But first, take a Selfie … Ääähh a Snapshot 😉 So follow this guide to purge and this one to shrink your DB. Shrinking your DB took a very long time. In my case with a 90 GB DB on flash disk took about 2,5 hours. After we cleaned the DB, startup your vCenter Service. This also took a very long time on first startup in my case (~2,5 … Continue reading Updating vCenter is always a pleasure … (Part 2 of 3)