Hi.
Due to an uncrecoverable AD crash the AD was redone from scratch.
This is a simple installation of vCenter 5.1, SSO and vCenter are on the same Win2008-R2-x64 VM installed. The logfile shows, that the startup process is trying to access the SSO at "vCenter.Company.local", but due to the AD setup from scratch this should now be "vCenter.Company-AD.local" ("-AD" added to the domain part).
I've searched throughout all the REGISTRY as well through all the text files, I cannot find a single occurence for the old string "vCenter.Company.local", where to fix this address?
"Der angegebene Host ist unbekannt" = "the host specified is unknown"
after adding the old DNS name to %windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts, the error lines changed, see below.
Any suggestions appreciated,
Regards, Rudi.
--------------------- without hosts entry ------------------------------
2014-01-21T12:26:11.936+01:00 [04424 info 'dbdbPortgroup'] [VpxdInvtDVPortGroup::PreLoadDvpgConfig] loaded [0] dvpg config objects
2014-01-21T12:26:11.967+01:00 [04424 info 'authvpxdMoSessionManager'] [SSO][SessionManagerMo::Init] Admin URI set to: https://vCenter.company.local:7444/sso-adminserver/sdk
2014-01-21T12:26:11.967+01:00 [04424 info 'authvpxdMoSessionManager'] [SSO][SessionManagerMo::Init] Downloading STS Root certificates ...
2014-01-21T12:26:11.967+01:00 [04308 error 'HttpConnectionPool-000001'] [ConnectComplete] Connect failed to <cs p:000000000aeacc00, TCP:vCenter.company.local:7444>; cnx: (null), error: class Vmacore::SystemException(Der angegebene Host ist unbekannt. )
2014-01-21T12:26:11.967+01:00 [04424 error '[SSO][SsoCertificateManagerImpl]'] [CreateAdminSsoServiceContent] Failure while trying to connect to SSO Admin server: Der angegebene Host ist unbekannt. . Will retry in 10 seconds.
2014-01-21T12:26:17.723+01:00 [04632 warning 'VpxProfiler' opID=SWI-d1f13bfd] VpxUtil_InvokeWithOpId [TotalTime] took 12012 ms
2014-01-21T12:26:21.982+01:00 [04308 error 'HttpConnectionPool-000001'] [ConnectComplete] Connect failed to <cs p:000000000aeacc00, TCP:vCenter.company.local:7444>; cnx: (null), error: class Vmacore::SystemException(Der angegebene Host ist unbekannt. )
2014-01-21T12:26:21.982+01:00 [04424 error '[SSO][SsoCertificateManagerImpl]'] [CreateAdminSsoServiceContent] Failure while trying to connect to SSO Admin server: Der angegebene Host ist unbekannt. . Will retry in 10 seconds.
2014-01-21T12:26:29.735+01:00 [04060 warning 'VpxProfiler' opID=SWI-736c8ec6] VpxUtil_InvokeWithOpId [TotalTime] took 12012 ms
------------- WITH hosts entry for sso --------------------------
2014-01-21T15:19:18.617+01:00 [04372 info 'dbdbPortgroup'] [VpxdInvtDVPortGroup::PreLoadDvpgConfig] loaded [0] dvpg config objects
2014-01-21T15:19:18.633+01:00 [04372 info 'authvpxdMoSessionManager'] [SSO][SessionManagerMo::Init] Admin URI set to: https://vcenter.company.local:7444/sso-adminserver/sdk
2014-01-21T15:19:18.633+01:00 [04372 info 'authvpxdMoSessionManager'] [SSO][SessionManagerMo::Init] Downloading STS Root certificates ...
2014-01-21T15:19:18.664+01:00 [05048 info 'Default'] Thread attached
2014-01-21T15:19:18.664+01:00 [03496 info 'Default'] Thread attached
2014-01-21T15:19:18.680+01:00 [04780 info 'Default'] Thread attached
2014-01-21T15:19:24.436+01:00 [04064 warning 'VpxProfiler' opID=SWI-aae76293] VpxUtil_InvokeWithOpId [TotalTime] took 12012 ms
2014-01-21T15:19:33.920+01:00 [04372 warning 'VpxProfiler'] Vpxd::ServerApp::Init [SessionManagerMo::Init()] took 15288 ms
2014-01-21T15:19:33.920+01:00 [04372 error 'vpxdvpxdMain'] [Vpxd::ServerApp::Init] Init failed: Unexpected exception
--> Backtrace:
--> backtrace[00] rip 000000018018a8ca
--> backtrace[01] rip 0000000180102f28
--> backtrace[02] rip 000000018010423e
--> backtrace[03] rip 000000018008e00b
--> backtrace[04] rip 0000000000b94971
--> backtrace[05] rip 0000000000b31298
--> backtrace[06] rip 0000000000b316c9
--> backtrace[07] rip 0000000000aa0fae
--> backtrace[08] rip 00000001404de248
--> backtrace[09] rip 000000013f3cfd68
--> backtrace[10] rip 000000013f3cfe5a
--> backtrace[11] rip 000000013f3cff69
--> backtrace[12] rip 000000013f3d02f9
--> backtrace[13] rip 000000013f714b43
--> backtrace[14] rip 000000013febe6f9
--> backtrace[15] rip 000000013feb859c
--> backtrace[16] rip 00000001400da78b
--> backtrace[17] rip 000007feff26fe11
--> backtrace[18] rip 0000000076e0aefd
--> backtrace[19] rip 00000000770a6861
-->
2014-01-21T15:19:33.920+01:00 [04372 warning 'VpxProfiler'] ServerApp::Init [TotalTime] took 21497 ms
2014-01-21T15:19:33.920+01:00 [04372 error 'Default'] Failed to intialize VMware VirtualCenter. Shutting down...
2014-01-21T15:19:33.920+01:00 [04372 info 'vpxdvpxdSupportManager'] Wrote uptime information
2014-01-21T15:19:36.447+01:00 [04952 warning 'VpxProfiler' opID=SWI-c5d09874] VpxUtil_InvokeWithOpId [TotalTime] took 12012 ms
2014-01-21T15:19:48.459+01:00 [04064 warning 'VpxProfiler' opID=SWI-2823ba8e] VpxUtil_InvokeWithOpId [TotalTime] took 12012 ms
2014-01-21T15:20:00.471+01:00 [04432 warning 'VpxProfiler' opID=SWI-af3371a8] VpxUtil_InvokeWithOpId [TotalTime] took 12012 ms
2014-01-21T15:20:01.328+01:00 [04780 info 'Default'] Thread detached
2014-01-21T15:20:12.482+01:00 [01792 warning 'VpxProfiler' opID=SWI-55254113] VpxUtil_InvokeWithOpId [TotalTime] took 12012 ms
2014-01-21T15:20:13.293+01:00 [04372 info 'Default'] Forcing shutdown of VMware VirtualCenter now