vcenter appliance 6.5 network will not start

[pdwalker]

Since installing esxi 6.5 and vcenter server appliance 6.5, I've had nothing but problems...

That said, I've now had the vcenter server appliance self corrupt 3 times already.  The previous two times, I "resolved" the problem by fsck'ing the file systems and rebooting.

This time however, after rebooting, the network service will not start and I have no idea why.  "Failed to start Network Service" is the error message.

Does anyone have any advice on how to diagnose this problem?

Should I delete the appliance and install a new one?

Has any one else had problems with the appliance and stability, or am I just overly lucky?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[pdwalker · Accepted solution]

Nevermind,

I found from the "journalctl -xb" logs that one of the other file systems had errors.  Once I corrected those and rebooted, the network came back up.

It'd still be nice to know why I have so many stability problems with the appliance though.  3 times in 3 months is way too many times.