No access to VIC

[HJG]

Connection to VIC is refused with the message

"Cannot connect to host ..: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it".

I am using

VIC 2.0.1 Build 32042

ESX Server 3.0.1 Build 42829

Looking at the virual center server i found the following problems:

. The service "VirualCenter Server" does not start - it automatically stops again (other services are OK)

. Event log does show event id 1000 starting and stopping again

. vpxd log shows:

Log for VMware VirtualCenter, pid=1724, version=2.0.1, build=build-32042, option=Release, section=2

Current working directory: C:\WINDOWS\system32

Initializing SSL context

Vmacore::InitSSL: doVersionCheck = true, handshakeTimeoutUs = 120000000

NFC connection accept timeout: 180000 milliseconds

NFC request timeout: 180000 milliseconds

NFC read timeout: 60000 milliseconds

NFC write timeout: 600000 milliseconds

Starting VMware VirtualCenter 2.0.1 build-32042

Account name: SYSTEM

Enabled low-frag process heap.

Enabled low-frag crt heap.

32 max LROs

6 reserved internal LROs

6 reserved blocker LROs

6 reserved short LROs

2 reserved long LROs

600-second task lifetime

ODBC error: (28000) - [ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Login failed for user 'VMESX'.

Failed to intialize VMware VirtualCenter. Shutting down...

Shutting down VMware VirtualCenter now

SetServiceStatus failed: The handle is invalid

. Testing the DB connection in ODBC was tested OK.

The ESX systems worked fine for ever since we had it (about a year) with no problems!

This problem was caused because the external SQL database changed:

. the database was moved to a new server

. the servers SQL now uses SQL 2005 (SP?) - old SQL was 2000 i think

. the password to access the SQL database was changed

I changed the servername and password in ODBC and as i mentioned the test in ODBC was OK.

Now the question:

Could someone help to fix the access to VirtualCenter without loosing any data/templates...?

Is HA still working without Virtual center?

Does this problem have any impact on the license server?

I believe an upgrade to VC 2.0.2 does not help as the current version is not working correctly?

Thank you in advance

[jhicks]

Check the release notes for VC2.0.1. You may need to update to VC2.0.2?

"Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (SP1 only) as a database for VirtualCenter. See Requirements for Running VirtualCenter with MS SQL 2005 (KB 6565318) for information on using this database with VirtualCenter."

[HJG]

Sorry, i forgot to mention that the DB is running in compatebility mode. I have also tried to change to the old DB on the old server (its still active but currently read only) with NO Success. I suppose the problem is that the Password has changed?

[jhicks]

Also, to address a few of your other questions:

- Your HA should be working properly at the moment. This does not need

VC to continue functioning once configured.

- The license service should still be running fine - it is not impacted

by SQL.