Hello all, last night my vCenter server froze and I had no choice but to do a hard shutdown/power off. When I powered the server back on, the VirtualCenter service would not start. After poking around, I realized that something was listening on port 80 which was stopping the service from starting.
My big problem is that along the way I ran the wrong vpxd switch and re-created the database repository. I have no backup of the database and when I logged into the vCenter server with my client, nothing was there in the inventory, etc. However, vCenter still seems to know what licenses I have.
Luckily, this is a lab environment that noone is using yet.
So, when I try to re-add one of my hosts, it works, BUT, the host is in evaluation mode. I cannot apply any of my licenses to it as vCenter shows them as having 0 capacity.
How do I go about resetting the licenses back to normal? I know blowing away vCenter itself won't do the trick. Do I need to blow away the database? Do I need to blow away my hosts and set them up again from scratch?
Please help.
