vCenter installation stuck on installing Orchestrator

July 25, 2013

I had a problem with installation of vSphere vCenter 5.1 U1 server on Windows 2008 R2 SP1. During installation process installer got stuck on Installing Orchestrator, I left it for about 3 hours and nothing had changed.

Installing orchestrator vCenter installer screen

The workaround:

Open task manager
switch to processes and sort it by name
there should be two processes called vCenterOchestrator.exe *32
kill one of the processes and vCenter installation will proceed immediately.

Task manager window

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Artur Krzywdzinski

Artur is Consulting Architect at Nutanix. He has been using, designing and deploying VMware based solutions since 2005 and Microsoft since 2012. He specialize in designing and implementing private and hybrid cloud solution based on VMware and Microsoft software stacks, datacenter migrations and transformation, disaster avoidance. Artur holds VMware Certified Design Expert certification (VCDX #077).