I have had this vCenter appliance beta running for a few weeks now on one of our test ESXi 3.5U4 hosts. We just patched the VM host and were upgrading the VMTools on this beta server as the VIClient showed that the tools was out of date. After upgrading the VMTools we can no longer connect to the vCenter appliance.

I checked the vmware-vpx status and it was stopped so I ran the start command and rechecked the status it ran for a brief two seconds then stopped again. I examined the vCenter log and found that there is an error connecting to the ODBC so the service stops. I have attached the log to this post.

I tried to re-run the ODBC config but it does not solve the problem. Any ideas of how to fix this outside of wiping this appliance off and starting over again? I would consider this to be a potential bug.