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My datastore ran out of space, the vcenter froze, I cleared space on the datastore, resumed the vcsa but it was unresponsive.
Restarted vcenter and got the "Waiting for vpxd to initialize failed".
What solved it was running these instructions I found here:
From: http://www.colabug.com/thread-1093735-1-1.html
To get over this, log on to the VCVA using SSH
Run the command “ /usr/sbin/vpxd_odbcconfig ”
You see output similar to:
VMware vCenter Server Appliance ODBC Configuration
Choose a database to use with VMware vCenter Server
1) oracle
2) embedded
Enter 2 (should the DB be the embedded PostgresSQL
You see output similar to:
Configuring ODBC for embedded
Operation was successful.
Database already populated with version VirtualCenter Database 5.5
Reinitialize database? (WARNING: WILL DELETE ALL RECORDS) [y(es)|N(O)]: OK, preserving the database. (select No to preserve the database)
Restart vCenter Server now to activate the database changes [y/N]:y
Successfully restarted vCenter Server
This should start the vpxd service
Here's my output:
Starting vmware-vpxd: success
Waiting for vpxd to initialize: ............................................................failed
vcsa:~ # /usr/sbin/vpxd_odbcconfig
WARNING - Use of this command is not supported unless you are doing this
with the consultation of VMware Technical Support or a VMware published
technical article.
VMware vCenter Server Appliance ODBC Configuration
Choose a database to use with VMware vCenter Server
1) oracle
2) embedded
#? 2
Configuring ODBC for embedded
Error: VPXD must be stopped to perform this operation.
Database configuration has failed.
Would you like to try again or modify the settings manually?
[A]gain/[m]anually : m
vcsa:~ # service vmware-vpxd stop
Stopping tomcat: success
Stopping vmware-vpxd: success
Shutting down ldap-server..done
vcsa:~ # /usr/sbin/vpxd_odbcconfig
WARNING - Use of this command is not supported unless you are doing this
with the consultation of VMware Technical Support or a VMware published
technical article.
VMware vCenter Server Appliance ODBC Configuration
Choose a database to use with VMware vCenter Server
1) oracle
2) embedded
#? 2
Configuring ODBC for embedded
Operation was successful.
Database already populated with version VirtualCenter Database 5.5
Reinitialize database? (WARNING: WILL DELETE ALL RECORDS) [y(es)|N(O)]: n
OK, preserving the database.
Restart vCenter Server now to activate the database changes [y/N]:y
Successfully restarted vCenter Server
vcsa:~ #
Success!!