Out of the blue our vcenter server started crashing. its been running on a windows 2012 server since inception. error message is below. any suggestions would be most appreciated!
An unrecoverable problem has occurred, stopping the VMware VirtualCenter service. Error: Error[VdbODBCError] (-1) "ODBC error: (58P02) - ERROR: could not create file "base/16384/25105_vm": File exists;
Error while executing the query" is returned when executing SQL statement "UPDATE VPX_VM SET DATACENTER_ID = ? , HOST_ID = ? , RESOURCE_GROUP_ID = ? , POWER_STATE = ? , DISABLED_SNAPSHOT = ? , FAILED_DMOTION = ? , IS_TEMPLATE = ? , AGENT_ID = ? , AGENT_CNX_STATE = ? , FILE_NAME = ? , LOCAL_FILE_NAME = ? , ESX_AGENT_VM_STATE = ? WHERE ID = ?"
I also get the below in windows:
Faulting application name: vpxd.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x58af5dea
Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 6.2.9200.23141, time stamp: 0x5f30a4ed
Exception code: 0xe06d7363
Fault offset: 0x000000000001897c
Faulting process id: 0x37cc
Faulting application start time: 0x01d6bcbdcdcb3f44
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\VMware\vCenter Server\vpxd\vpxd.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\system32\KERNELBASE.dll
Report Id: 673de8b2-28b1-11eb-945a-000c2952f52c
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
thanks for the suggestions. i was able to figure it out. bitdefender installed an update that vcenter didn't like. once i removed it i was able to get the services to run.
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Vcenter Version?
Make sure your embedded sql database is not full
vCenter Server version?
hi, its vcenter 6.0.0
i did try the script to reset the inventory service as that was hanging, preventing everything else from starting. the inventory service still fails to start.
i didn't see any error stating the DB was full. how do i check that? when i researched the error it seemed most with full db's had something to that effect in the error message.
Please refer the below link
Inventory Service fails to start in vCenter Server 6.x (2119422)
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2113435
thanks for the suggestions. i was able to figure it out. bitdefender installed an update that vcenter didn't like. once i removed it i was able to get the services to run.
You should also plan to upgrade your vCenter soon and preferably to VCSA.
vCenter 6.0 reached it's general support end date just as the pandemic caused full lockdown in most countries.
End of General Support for vSphere 6.0 (66977)
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