I installed VCenter for linux following the instructions in the documentation pdf, but have run into some trouble after the install when attempting to connect.

The documentation indicated that browsing to the IP, not specifying a port number (https://10.10.123.111), it should present me with a welcome page. instead, it only gives me a "failed to connect" error.

If I attempt to connect to the VCenter Linux server from a windows box using VI Client, it provides nothing more than a vague error: "VMware Infrastructure Client could not establish the initial connection with server "10.10.123.111". Details: A connection failure occured."

What am I missing here? I have ensured that the vmware-vpxd daemon is running (/etc/init.d/vmware-vpxd start), and can remotely access the machine using ssh or pointing a browser to the configuration port (https://10.10.123.111:5480). I can also log into my oracle database (running on a separate debian VM) without any problems.

Also, there's a couple things that seem somewhat strange to me:

1. Why can oracle not run locally on the virtual appliance? I tried for a while to get this to work, even giving the appliance more hard drive space, then booting a livedisk and using gparted to expand the partition and swap space, installing oracle on it...and then couldn't connect to localhost:8080/apex (i used the ssh trick to get a browser: ssh root@10.10.123.111 -L 8081:localhost:8080, then pointed the connecting machine's browser to http://localhost:8081/apex): while this works fine for a normal debian oracle server, the appliance refused connection.

2. Why, after going through all the trouble of getting the server to run in linux, must i still use windows to run the VI Client? Doesn't this somewhat defeat the purpose? or will this function in wine, or is a linux version expected? (or did i just completely miss something?)

Thanks for any help