Anton,

The KB you cite says:

The VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 4 Performance Overview plug-in only works if the VirtualCenter Server is connected to a remote SQL Server listening on the standard SQL port (1433).

I was skeptical becuase I am running vCenter Server 4 and SQL Express in the same VM, but I gave it a shot and changed the ports to 1433 and restarted the SQL Service.

No change. Still get the error. I also tried a reboot of the vCenter Server OS in the VM. No change.

Jim S.

Anton,

I have made some many changes that I cannot say which one fixed this issue. Your post on the KB article 1009833 had me thinking. I did change the port to 1433 and that did not work, but I think I needed to close the Client and reconnect. also, I needed to stop and restart the SQL Express service. And also the vSphere Server. I also set domain name of the Server to the server's IP address in the extension.xml file located at C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\VirtualCenter Server\extensions\com.vmware.vim.stats.report.

Some combination of these changes fixed the issue and now Performance Overview is working on V4

Jim s.

I experienced this issue upon upgrading from VC 2.5 U4 to VC 4. For me, the fix was very simple. The "HTTP SSL" service was set to disabled on my vCenter server for some reason. I simply enabled this service and set it to automatic. Once this was taken care of I could then start the "VMware vCenter Collector" and "VMware vCenter Collector Provider" services and everything worked fine on the Performance Overview pages.

Mike

Please check the following:

1. Your VMware VirtualCenter Management Webservices is running

2. DSN uses a TNS service name.

3. You have ojdbc5.jar placed at %ProgramFiles%\VMware\Infrastructure\tomcat\lib

After performing 2 and 3, restart web services and relogin to VC.

-Sandeep