I am also seeing all the issues listed above following migration from 7.2 to 7.3 (forced on me when I moved SIM to a new server).
Come on HP, VCRM is at best pretty useless. You have now rendered it completely useless.
My list of gripes for when it does work include...
1. It's slow, taking hours to start and validate the catalog one file at a time. I dread a server restart because of this!
2. Constantly downloads things you have archived.
3. Very memory hungry.
4. Very CPU hungry.
5. Very unresponsive.
6. Kills SMH's because it insists on sending the full catalog to the VCA every time the VCA is visited (you guys not heard of AJAX!).
7. Randomly fails to download updates you know it should.
8. Completely useless logs that tell you very little you didn't already know.
9. Despite allowing you to download software for 'Desktops', there is no VCA for Desktop machines.
Is it maybe not time to rethink VCRM and come up with a product that solves all these issues?