Morning All,
Hoping someone can introduce some sanity into my life.. We had a power cut last week and it has caused havoc with my Windows 2008 vCenter Server machine. The symptoms (there are many):
o- can't start vSphere Client, returns the error:
"vSphere Client could not connect to "<server name>". An unknown error occurred. (The server could not interpret the client's request. (The remote server returned an error: (503) Server Unavailable.))
o- this led me to look at the state of the various VMWare services on the machine. A number have not started, despite being set for automatic start up:
- VMWare Content Library Service
- VMWare ESX Agent Manager
- VMWare Performance Charts
- VMWare Syslog Collector
- VMWare vCenter workflow manager
- VMWare VirtualCenter Server
- VMWare vService Manager
o- if I try to start VMWare VirtualCenter Server (chose it to try because it sounds important!), it fails. Service control manager returns the error "Error 1067: The process terminated unexpectedly". I get an event log entry with event ID 7031 telling that it failed to start.
o- There's an event in the VMWare vCenter log from last week saying that "vpxd status changed from grey to red". I think that was before the power cut.
o- In my 'vpxs-xxx.log' (which I think are the logs from the VirtualCenter Server service) I have a number of bad looking entries:
2017-08-16T05:21:41.800-05:00 info vpxd[04464] [Originator@6876 sub=Libs] FILE: FileCreateDirectoryRetry: Non-retriable error encountered (C:\ProgramData\VMware): Cannot create a file when that file already exists (183)
2017-08-16T05:21:53.116-05:00 error vpxd[07452] [Originator@6876 sub=vmomi.soapStub[17]] initial service state request failed, disabling pings. error=HTTP Status:400 'Bad Request'
2017-08-16T05:22:18.125-05:00 warning vpxd[08020] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Failed to connect socket; <io_obj p:0x000000000977ff88, h:2788, <TCP '0.0.0.0:0'>, <TCP '127.0.0.1:8088'>>, e: system:10061(No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it)
2017-08-16T05:22:19.144-05:00 error vpxd[08020] [Originator@6876 sub=HttpConnectionPool-000001] [ConnectComplete] Connect failed to <cs p:0000000009cb84a0, TCP:localhost:8088>; cnx: (null), error: class Vmacore::SystemException(No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it)
I'm really struggling to make sense of this. I thought maybe my vpxd.cfg file was corrupt, so I followed some advice I saw somewhere to rename the file and restart the service, a new one was supposed to be created. It wasn't, and the service failed to start with a "failed to find specified file" error.
There seems to be so much wrong here, I'm struggling to get to the bottom of this 😞 Any suggestions would be very welcome!
Thanks,
Al.
