error 25003. setup failed to create the virtualcenter repository

[nurmansyah]

Hi All,

As stated in subject, above error message always happen on VirtualCenter 2.5 installation. I gives database user as dbo_owner role on virtual center database. I also tried both of sql authentication and windows authentication, and still have no luck.

Configuration

• Windows 2003 Server R2 SP2

• SQL Express 2005 with Advance Services SP3

• .Net Framework 3.5 SP1

Any advice will much appreciated,

Thanks,

Message was edited by: nurmansyah

- Correction on Windows 2003 Server R2 SP2

[krowczynski]

Have you found any errors int the logfiles of vcenter?

MCP, VCP

[nurmansyah]

i found following entries onvim-vcs-msi.log file

MSI (s) (64:8C) : CMsiServices::ProcessTypeLibrary runs in local context, not impersonated.

MSI (s) (64:8C) : ProcessTypeLibraryCore returns: 0. (0 means OK)

MSI (s) (64:8C) : Executing op: ActionStart(Name=VM_FormatDb,Description=Creating VirtualCenter Repository,)

Action 17:00:10: VM_FormatDb. Creating VirtualCenter Repository

MSI (s) (64:8C) : Executing op: CustomActionSchedule(Action=VM_FormatDb,ActionType=1025,Source=BinaryData,Target=VMFormatDb,CustomActionData=C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\VirtualCenter Server\vpxd.exe)

MSI (s) (64:08) : Invoking remote custom action. DLL: C:\WINDOWS\Installer\MSI10F.tmp, Entrypoint: VMFormatDb

Error 25003.Setup failed to create the VirtualCenter repository.

MSI (s) (64!64) : Product: VMware VirtualCenter Server -- Error 25003.Setup failed to create the VirtualCenter repository.

Action ended 17:00:43: InstallExecute. Return value 3.

Thanks,

[TobiasKracht]

Article in KB about fixing this trouble.

StarWind Software R&D

[nurmansyah]

DB is in Case Insensitif mode and still get the same error.

[TobiasKracht]

After you create the database on SQL Server did you create a separate

user account for VC to use or are you using SA? Are you using SQL or

Windows authentication? Did you grant the user the DB_Owner role on the

new SQL server database? Before trying MSDE again have you un-installed

the any previous versions of MSDE first?

or try this: "For some reason I was able to run through the entire install by running

it from CD. I downloaded the ISO and made a CD to install from.

Previously I was installing from the .zip file that I copy to the

server. It is really strange, I don't know what changed, but it has

been installed and I'm now using the SQL instance as the back end."

StarWind Software R&D