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After reboot I cannot even connect using vSphere Client. The "VirtualCenter server service" doesn't start.
It was atually under the Web Client Server install i notise that I had a problem. I did a simple install which completed succesfully. Then I connected using vSphere Client an added two hosts. Then I restarted the vCenter VM and started the "Web Client Server" installer. In the wizard when SSO info, including username/password and lookup service URL. This failed and I started troubleshooting. Then I noticed that two services didn't come back up after reboot: "VMware VirtualCenter Management Webservices" and "VMware VirtualCenter Server service".
In the vpxd logs I see:
2013-01-22T15:34:58.169+01:00 [03020 error 'HttpConnectionPool-000001'] [ConnectComplete] Connect failed to <cs p:00000000082f0850, TCP:10.10.10.80:7444>; cnx: (null), error: class Vmacore::SystemException(No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. )
I have a snapshot just before rebooting the vCenter VM. I snapshooted back and what I see is that SSO which is listning on port 7444 before reboot is OK
After reboot it's not:
I have also tried installing the SSO, inventory service and vCenter seperatly. Still with same result.
I will try installing an earlier version of vCenter 5.1.
Regards