An administrator has upgraded a Distributed vCenter Server environment from 5.5 to 6.0. What is the next step that should be taken?

In vCenter 6.0, the Inventory Service was deprecated and its data indexing capabilities were integrated directly into the vCenter Server service itself; the old 5.5 Inventory Service process is not automatically cleaned up during the upgrade and must be manually stopped and uninstalled to eliminate resource conflicts and avoid service confusion on the host.

Changing the Inventory Service startup type from manual to automatic is incorrect because the service is deprecated in vCenter 6.0 and should be fully removed, not reconfigured to start automatically.

Simply stopping and restarting the Inventory Service does not resolve the underlying issue - the service is obsolete post-upgrade and must be permanently removed, not cycled.

Setting the Inventory Service to manual startup is an insufficient action; since the service is no longer needed in vCenter 6.0, the correct post-upgrade step is to stop it and uninstall it entirely rather than leaving it dormant.