Vcenter Appliance Embedded Database will not configure

[PaulArch]

I've accepted the EULA etc but when I try to configure the DB as embedded on the appliance I get a message uknown pop up after a few minutes.

Does anyone know how to get around this?

[MarekZdrojewski]

Hi,

I have the same issue here. Running vCSA on Workstation 8. Can’t configure the database and the VM is very sluggish. Anyone with the same problem and maybe a solution?

Ragards.

[Andrey_Ra]

I had same behaviour when I limited memory size of vCenter Appliance's VM to the 1024MB.

This behaviour is gone when memory size was increased to the 3GB value.

[MarekZdrojewski]

Thanks for pointing that out. I'm currently running with 2 GB under Workstation 8. I'll try with more memory.

Regards.

[PaulArch]

I upped the memory to 2GB and the database then configured.

However I couldn’t connect with the VI client or via https to VC.

Upping the memory to 4GB fixed everything!

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[RParker]

I think you must have changed the default values, because I have deployed that appliance 3 times. EVERY time it's set to 8GB.  Not sure how you installed it, but you should never change values of an appliance, they are pre-set for a reason.

[MarekZdrojewski]

Hi Paul,

I tried with 4 GB of memory but the vCSA was still sluggish… removing it and importing again with default settings worked for me.

Cheers!

[MarekZdrojewski]

Indeed, just import the OVF with default settings, works like a charm

Thanks!

Regards.

[Onthax]

I've been having the same issue

I import the OVF on my esxi 5 box with 4gb of RAM, start it up, agreed to eula, then try to set embedded DB hit save, ,it thinks for a minute or 2, then pops up an box with nothing in it.