I searched high and low, went through all the previous posts I could find, but can't get past this pesky JDBC error while upgrading the vCenter 5.0 to 5.1.
The SSO bit went without any issue, but this one has me stumped.
Whatever I try, I keep getting "Could not connect to the database with specified JDBC url"
I tried changing the url to whatever, according to this but that doesn't help.
The logs can't give me any clue either ... The only thing I'm seeing is this "VMTestDBConnection:: error code returned 1 while launching vimtool.bat"
I changed the DSN to use the sa account explicitly, no dice ... Testing the DSN is always succesful (both 64 and 32 bit)
Triple checked the SQL configuration manager for the TCP/IP settings, all correct.
If anyone has another thing I can try ... I'm all ears ...