Virtual Center Server 2.0.2 Service just crashed my server

[aschaef]

We're running the Virtual Center Server on a SQL server and it appears that the VCS service just crashed the entire server. When the server came back up from reboot it had a System Failure: Stop Error in the log with the following hex in the comment window:

0x000000d1 (0x00000400, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0xba2fb583)

This happened while I was in the VC Client Consoled into a server. After the computer rebooted the VCS Service failed to start. I was able to manually start it from the Services MMC, but that leaves me with a very uneasy feeling running 2.0.2

[esiebert7625]

In general running VC on a SQL Server is not a good idea, you might consider running it separately as a VM. . In your case when it rebooted the SQL Server probably was not fully started when the VC Server tried to start. As a result it did not start automatically but started manually afterwards when SQL Server was up. If you do continue to run it on the SQL server you should delay the start of VC as per the below doc.

How to delay loading of specific services if running the database server on the VC server - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/193888

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Thanks, Eric

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