vSphere vCenter service won't start at boot

[withanh]

I just installed the vSphere vCenter v4 and when the server boots, the vCenter services fail. As soon as I can get to the console and start the services, they start right up no issues, it's just on initial boot that they do not start.

First error:

EventID: 1000
Description: The description for Event ID ( 1000 ) in Source ( VMware VirtualCenter Server ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: Error getting configuration info from the database.

Second error (shows up less than a second after the first error):

EventID: 1000
Description: The description for Event ID ( 1000 ) in Source ( VMware VirtualCenter Server ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: Failed to intialize VMware VirtualCenter. Shutting down....

I tried creating a dependency on SQL Express, but that didn't help, I also tried making it dependent on Spooler since that typically starts late in the boot process, but that did not help either. Always the same two errors on boot.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!

h

 

[egodette]

I have the same issue from time to time. I found that when I put 2 processors and 4 gigs of ram on the VCenter machine it happens less often.

 

[withanh]

Interesting. I may try that just to see. I have 1 proc and 2 gigs currently.

 

[egodette]

Thats not enough.. (Excerpt from Installation Guide)

Minimum Requirements for vCenter Server
CPU – 2 CPUs
Processor – 2.0GHz or faster Intel or AMD processor. (Processor requirements might be higher if the database runs on the same machine.)
Memory – 3GB RAM. Memory requirements might be higher if the database runs on the same machine.

 

[withanh]

Don't know, but I decided to just rebuild it and it's working just fine now with 1 vCPU and 2GB RAM.

I will up it to 2 vCPU and 4 GB RAM just to be on the safe side.

h