Hello,
Apologies in advance if this was not the correct subforum. This seemed like the discussion board that fit best.
I'm running into this new issue when trying to deploy a VM on ESXi 8.0.0. Whenever I select my Datastores, it says it cannot connect to profile-driven storage service.
I rebooted both my ESXi and vCenter, and then checked the services. The 'VMware vSphere Profile-Driven Storage Service' is set to Automatic, but is Stopped. When trying to start in the Web console, it will say "Starting" for about 3-5 minutes before dropping back to the Stopped Status.
I then tried to stop and start the service within the shell via SSH. service-control --status sps gave me "Start Pending." After stopping the service and running service-control --start sps, It gave me the "Performing start operation on service sps..." and hung there for another 5-8 minutes. Once it was done, it gave me "Error executing start on service sps. install.ciscommon.service.failstart, args: [sps], localized: "An error occured while starting service 'sps''".
This problem popped up out of the blue. I have 7 other healthy VM's and two healthy Datastores, but with this issue I can no longer create any new VM.
I spent several hours digging through vmware documentation and various troubleshooting posts, but almost all of the posts are 5-10+ years old. Any nudges in the right direction would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
