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An unknown connection error occured.(The Request failed becuase of a connection failure.(Unable to connect to the Remote Server)

Hi All,

     I am not able to connect vcenter server through VI client  and getting error "vSphere Client could not connect to "

An unknown connection error occured.(The Request failed because of a connection failure.(Unable to connect to the Remote Server) "

However , i tried to restart the  vcenter services but still getting error and also after re-boot also didn't fix the issues. PFA error screen shot.

Vcenter logs :-

2015-05-30T21:20:17.518-05:00 [02992 info 'utilvpxdVdb'] [VpxdVdb::SetDBType] Logging in to DSN: VMware vSphere vCenter Server with username

2015-05-30T21:20:17.549-05:00 [02992 error 'utilvpxdVdb'] [VpxdVdb::SetDBType]: Login failure - retrying once...

2015-05-30T21:20:17.549-05:00 [02992 error 'utilvpxdVdb'] [VpxdVdb::SetDBType] Failed to connect to database: .  Retry attempt: 1 ...

2015-05-30T21:20:27.565-05:00 [02992 info 'utilvpxdVdb'] [VpxdVdb::SetDBType] Logging in to DSN: VMware vSphere vCenter Server with username

2015-05-30T21:20:27.580-05:00 [02992 error 'utilvpxdVdb'] [VpxdVdb::SetDBType] Encountered login error. Subsequent connection attempt failed: 28000

2015-05-30T21:20:27.580-05:00 [02992 error 'utilvpxdVdb'] [VpxdVdb::SetDBType] Aborting after 1 retries.

2015-05-30T21:20:27.580-05:00 [02992 error 'Default'] Error getting configuration info from the database

2015-05-30T21:20:27.580-05:00 [02992 warning 'VpxProfiler'] Vpxd::ServerApp::Init [VpxdVdb::Init(VpxdVdb::GetVcVdbInstId(), false, false, NULL)] took 10062 ms

2015-05-30T21:20:27.580-05:00 [02992 error 'vpxdvpxdMain'] [Vpxd::ServerApp::Init] Init failed: VpxdVdb::Init(VpxdVdb::GetVcVdbInstId(), false, false, NULL)

--> Backtrace:

--> backtrace[00] rip 000000018018aafa

--> backtrace[01] rip 0000000180102568

--> backtrace[02] rip 00000001801038de

--> backtrace[03] rip 000000018008d24b

--> backtrace[04] rip 00000000003d5c2c

--> backtrace[05] rip 00000000003f6512

--> backtrace[06] rip 000000014069b9bc

--> backtrace[07] rip 000000014069a3dc

--> backtrace[08] rip 00000001408be31b

--> backtrace[09] rip 000007fefd56a82d

--> backtrace[10] rip 00000000770659cd

--> backtrace[11] rip 000000007729b891

-->

2015-05-30T21:20:27.580-05:00 [02992 warning 'VpxProfiler'] ServerApp::Init [TotalTime] took 10062 ms

2015-05-30T21:20:27.580-05:00 [02992 error 'Default'] Failed to intialize VMware VirtualCenter. Shutting down...

2015-05-30T21:20:27.580-05:00 [02992 info 'vpxdvpxdSupportManager'] Wrote uptime information

2015-05-30T21:20:27.580-05:00 [02992 error 'Default'] Alert:false@ d:/build/ob/bora-1364037/bora/vpx/vpxd/util/vdb.cpp:422

Thanks

vmk2014

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julienvarela
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Hi,

Can you check your odbc config?

And attached vpxd log here : C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\Logs\vpxd.log


You can check here KB VMware KB: vCenter Server installation fails with ODBC and DSN errors and here VMware KB: Starting VMware VirtualCenter Server service when using SQL authentication fails with the...

Regards,

Julien VARELA

Regards, J.Varela http://vthink.fr
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