This came up on Twitter Sunday, and having happened upon it in the past, I thought I’d share the solution that Ed Haletky (Blue Gears) and I came to. Basically it boils down to the service start order for the vCenter and related services. Specifically the order should be:
- SQL (MS SQL, Oracle, etc)
- ADAM (only when using linked mode)
- vCenter Server
- vCenter Server Update Manager
In our case the problem service was vCenter Server Update Manager. To correct it, follow this Microsoft KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/193888 to set the service dependency. Hope this was helpful.
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