The Storage Service is not initialized. Please try again later

[rdavies79]

We are running VMware ESX4 U1 and V Center 4 U1. When clicking on Storage Views and/or Update in this screen in V Center we are getting the following error message

The Storage Service is not initialized. Please try again later and An internal error occurred while initializing the storage service.

From what I understood this issue was meant to be fixed in U1 however we are still experiencing this problem.

I have tried refreshing the datastores and rescanning and restarting the services. We have also rebooted our hosts and V Center. I have checked the logs are it was recommended to check sms.log on V Center in one KB article. I have atatched this here if it is of any interest.

There seems to be very little information about this so thought I would post this here in case anyone else has had the same issue and resolved it

[roconnor]

Hi, did you get a fix for this ?

[AWo]

When you check the vCenter Service Status in the vClient, is the Storage Management Service down? If so, try if that works (it did it for us):

I granted the user who logs on with the vClient to the vCenter server "Act as part of the operating system" user rights on the vCenter server.

AWo

VCP 3 & 4

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