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  • 1.  VirtualCenter Server Service failed to start

    Posted Feb 22, 2008 10:59 AM

    I have search the site for similar issue but doesn't seem to resolve the issue I'm facing with.

    I'm running VC 2.5 on W2k3 R2 SP2. As I don't have a SQL server application, I'm using SQL Express 2005 as part of the installation requirement. But I keep getting the following error and I need to manually start the services. I do not have IIS turn on. Can anyone please enlighted me! Thanks a million!

    Event Type: Error

    Event Source: VMware VirtualCenter Server

    Event Category: None

    Event ID: 1000

    Date: 2/22/2008

    Time: 6:28:06 PM

    User: N/A

    Computer: MBL-VC

    Description:

    The description for Event ID ( 1000 ) in Source ( VMware VirtualCenter Server ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: Failed to intialize VMware VirtualCenter. Shutting down....



  • 2.  RE: VirtualCenter Server Service failed to start

    Posted Feb 22, 2008 11:45 AM

    Try to start VC on the command line and post the output here: vpxd.exe (or "vpxd.exe /?" first)

    AWo



  • 3.  RE: VirtualCenter Server Service failed to start
    Best Answer

    Posted Feb 22, 2008 12:39 PM

    This occurs because the VC service starts before the SQL service is up. What you need to do is make the VC service depend on the SQL service, then it will wait for it to start before it does.

    To do this, open the registry and go to HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\vpxd. Double click the "DependsOnService" entry and add the name of the SQL service to the bottom of the list. It's most likely MSSQLSERVER.

    Matt



  • 4.  RE: VirtualCenter Server Service failed to start

    Posted Feb 22, 2008 01:43 PM

    Do as Matt says however the Server name will be MSQL$MSDC_VC or something similar

    Tom Howarth

    VMware Communities User Moderator



  • 5.  RE: VirtualCenter Server Service failed to start

    Posted Feb 28, 2008 12:44 AM

    It work perfectly! Thanks for the advise!

    Cheers!



  • 6.  RE: VirtualCenter Server Service failed to start

    Posted Feb 28, 2008 12:50 AM

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  • 7.  RE: VirtualCenter Server Service failed to start

    Posted Mar 25, 2008 02:21 AM

    Hi guys,

    need your help, i'm having a same problem that virtualcenter server service failed to start, when doing installation for VM this VC server is not join domain, and now it was join domain by our sysadmin, and after reboot the virtualcenter server service failed to start, i already try to disjoin this server from domain, try to unreg and re reg the VC (vpxd.exe -u and vpxd.exe -r) but it still failed.. need your advise guys.. :smileysad:

    Thanks,

    Rahmat

    below is log result when i run command vpxd.exe -s :

    Log for VMware VirtualCenter, pid=2128, version=2.5.0, build=build-64192, option=Release, section=2

    Current working directory: C:\WINDOWS\system32

    HOSTINFO: Seeing Intel CPU, numCoresPerCPU 2 numThreadsPerCore 1.

    HOSTINFO: This machine has 1 physical CPUS, 2 total cores, and 2 logical CPUs.

    Log path: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\Logs

    Initializing SSL

    Using system libcrypto, version 90709F

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

    Starting VMware VirtualCenter 2.5.0 build-64192

    Account name: SYSTEM

    Enabled low-frag process heap.

    Enabled low-frag crt heap.

    34 max LROs

    6 reserved internal LROs

    6 reserved blocker LROs

    6 reserved short LROs

    4 reserved long LROs

    600-second task lifetime

    Unable to recover from 42000:195

    Unable to recover from 42000:8180

    Couldn't read registry entry vmdbPort

    Couldn't read registry entry managedIP

    Invoking callbacks for key vpxd.npivWwnGeneration.singleNodeWwn

    Invoking callbacks for key vpxd.npivWwnGeneration.portWwnNumber

    Locale subsystem initialized from C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\VirtualCenter Server\locale/ with default locale en.

    Initializing SSL Contexts

    Setting VerifySSLCertificates to FALSE

    Local Domain : WORKGROUP

    IsWorkgroup: Yes

    Local Machine: ALTIRIS-RDP

    Default resource used for 'LicenseRestrictedEvent.category' expected in module 'event'.

    Default resource used for 'LicenseRestrictedEvent.fullFormat' expected in module 'event'.

    Default resource used for 'LicenseRestrictedEvent.formatOnDatacenter' expected in module 'event'.

    Default resource used for 'LicenseRestrictedEvent.formatOnComputeResource' expected in module 'event'.

    Default resource used for 'LicenseRestrictedEvent.formatOnHost' expected in module 'event'.

    Default resource used for 'LicenseRestrictedEvent.formatOnVm' expected in module 'event'.

    Failed to create https proxy: Resource is already in use: Listen socket: :443

    Failed to intialize VMware VirtualCenter. Shutting down...

    Forcing shutdown of VMware VirtualCenter now



  • 8.  RE: VirtualCenter Server Service failed to start

    Posted Dec 03, 2008 11:28 PM

    Hello,

    I am not sure if you have resolved this yet, I assume you have but we had the same issue a while back.

    It was simply the ports being hogged by IIS and WWW.

    This means VC cannot spin up its own webserver on port 80 and 443 and hence fails to start.

    We just disabled IIS and WWW so they would not restart on reboot.

    Quite often IIS is installed as part of the SQL 2005 install process if you are running VC and SQL on the same server.

    Cheers

    Graeme