Good day,
On Window server 2008r2 I have vCentar, but after a restart of the server I cannot start VMware vService manager,
vCenter is on Esxi 5.1.0 build 1483097.
and if I want to login to vCenter from a VMware client I got error:
Any advice on how to troubleshoot this error
Any advice on how to troubleshoot this error
Blow that 5.1 vCenter away and start with something in recent memory? In all seriousness, that version is so old (and was so problematic) that you stand better chances of just building a new vCenter on a more recent version.
Agree with the previous comment. 5.1 was pretty much DOA and should not be used anymore. Switching to something more recent 6.5u2, 6.7u1 will be highly advisable.
Look at the services. it vSphere 6.* version as I can see PSC service on the service console.
vCenter server service is in manual mode.
Please change the service type to automatic and start the service.
I know is old but I was thinking to just try to fix errors and then migrate to 6.5 or 6.7 vCenter. I don't have so much experience with vmware.
Maybe is much easy just to wipe out this vCenter and build a new one.
Thanks all of you for advice..I will post an update.
You can try this:
You are on VC 6.x(VM) which is on ESXi 5.1 . It is highly recommended to be on ESXi 6.0 or later but that is not the cause of failure here.
Also do not start any VMware services from services.msc from 6.x version onwards. You should use service-control .
Follow the KB and do a stop all and start all and check which services fail.
If still it fails at VSM then check the below logs and update here
C:\ProgramData\VMware\vCenterServer\logs\vsm\
Check vsm.log and wrapper.log
Regards,
AJ