Currently I created and started a maintenance job using the SQL 2000 (sp4) Database Maintenance Plan to see if the database is corrupt of not properly indexed.
The job does the following:
Integrity Checks/ Optimizations(reindexes the tables)/ Database Backup/Transaction Log Backup
I will see what happens .....
But here is the background information:
Windows 2003 Enterprise Server: Service Pack 2 v.4035
SQL SERVER 2000 version 8.00.2039 (SP4)
Virtual Center Installed from VMware-VIMSetup-2.5.0-64201
Virtual Center was at 2.0 until an upgrade in March 2008 to 2.5.0-64201
I have rebooted the VC several times since...but when I tried to log into it
just today(yes, yesterday it worked). Found out the service was not started
The server is hosted on it's own WorkGroup and the name has never changed, nor
has the ip addresses or really nothing at all.
SEARCH:
Vmware VirtualCenter Server does not start Event ID 1000
Vmware virtualCenter Server Event ID ( 1000 )
Vmware virtualCenter Server Event ID 1000
Vmware virtualCenter Server Event ID 1000 AUXSOURCE= flag
Event Type: Error
Event Source: VMware VirtualCenter Server
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1000
Date: 8/14/2008
Time: 4:13:32 PM
User: N/A
Computer: SCVMCENTER1
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....
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One hit but not the answer for me.
our sql server is up to date (sql 2000 with SP4 and authentication works fine)
http://communities.vmware.com/message/457617#457617
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another hit: check the log files,
Ok I check the logs files and also ran a backup on the database.
Our sql server as unlimited log files and the database files can grow to more than 20 gig
Currently it is at 278MB in size.
Right now space available is at 160 MB...
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/36941;jsessionid=61150D2CC70E004F347253A0A52DFEBA?tstart=0
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Another hit: the server was renamed. ( I did not rename the server)
http://timjacobs.blogspot.com/2008/05/renaming-virtualcenter-25-server.html
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Another hit: IIS or Reporting Services was also installed which caused the problem
(no I do not have IIS installed or any other web server installed beside apache)
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/34232;jsessionid=2B64AF3A425B6E99C3F5D1B74C6079C1?tstart=60
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ATTEMPTED: to user the local administrator account to start the service "VMWARE VirtualCenter Server" service
and it did not start. Same error message
reference:
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/49717?tstart=0&start=10
Thanks,
Doug Lubey of Louisiana
www.douglubey.com
) so check that as well for this error! Thanks to all for the interesting reading -
