Hello,
The vCenter appliance 6.7 went down today out of the blue. Yes, I know the version is EOL and planning on updating it after the client approves the work.
Our monitoring on it was showing that username/password was invalid so when I hopped on the vCenter appliance, it showed it was up.
Navigated to the web GUI and was getting the following errror:
503 Service Unavailable (Failed to connect to endpoint: [N7Vmacore4Http20NamedPipeServiceSpecE:0x000056036ca28990] _serverNamespace = / action = Allow _pipeName =/var/run/vmware/vpxd-webserver-pipe)
Was still able to SSH in to the console so checked the status of the services and sure enough, vmware-vpxd and vmware-vpxd-svcs are not running.
Tried to start them up but fails to start with:
Operation not cancellable. Please wait for it to finish...
Performing start operation on service vpxd...
Error executing start on service vpxd. Details {
"detail": [
{
"translatable": "An error occurred while starting service '%(0)s'",
"localized": "An error occurred while starting service 'vpxd'",
"args": [
"vpxd"
],
"id": "install.ciscommon.service.failstart"
}
],
"problemId": null,
"componentKey": null,
"resolution": null
}
Service-control failed. Error: {
"detail": [
{
"translatable": "An error occurred while starting service '%(0)s'",
"localized": "An error occurred while starting service 'vpxd'",
"args": [
"vpxd"
],
"id": "install.ciscommon.service.failstart"
}
],
"problemId": null,
"componentKey": null,
"resolution": null
I have seen this before where the certificate had expired so I tried to reset the whole chain under cert manager (option 8 )and while it generates a new certificate, it fails to complete as the services will not start.
The drives are not full, the DB is in a healthy status but the services will not start.
Is there anything else I can check to see how I can these services to start?
