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Alan
Asked: 2010-02-13 14:02:37 +0800 CST

VMware VirtualCenter Server service stops

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I'm having a problem with my vCenter server. Within an hour of a reboot the VMware VirtualCenter Server service stops. If I restart it… it runs for about an hour, then stops again. The following event is registered in the system event log. The VMware VirtualCenter Server service terminated with service-specific error 2 (0x2).

I'm using SQL2005 Express It’s a VM, windows 2003 Std, 1vCPU, 4 Gb RAM Tomcat and SQL are using lots of memory.

This is a similar problem to the many many repsonce you will find on google - but not the same. My service stops about an hour after a clean, successful reboot.

Ideas?

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2 Answers

  1. From what I can gather from google, it may be because the VC starts before the SQL server :

    • Obtain the service name for your SQL Service – in Registry Editor, browse to HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services and look for entries starting with MSSQL. In all likelyhood, yours will be called either MSSQL or MSSQL$SQLEXPRESS (ignore MSSQLServerADHelper)
    • Now browse to HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\vpxd
    • Open the REG_MULTI_SZ value called DependOnService
    • Add a line called “MSSQL$SQLEXPRESS” (or whatever value you determined above)
    • Ensure that the last line in the value is blank
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  2. Best Answer

    It seems that I had basicly out grown SQL Express. Moved DB to a seperate SQL server (full, not express) solved the problem.

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