Hi,
i just do a fresh Installation of vCenter to upgrade to 5.5
Everything seems to work but the vcenter Service Need a Long time to start. Digging into the logfiles i see the following error message in the vpxd.log
Failed to get exclusive lock: HY000:20001:ODBC error: (HY000) - [Oracle][ODBC][Ora]ORA-20001: Failed to Lock vCenter Repository!!
Searching VMware i found the following kb
VMware KB: vCenter Server does not start when connecting to an Oracle database
VMware KB: Unable to get an exclusive access to the vCenter Server repository
There it is describe that the issue is resolve in 5.5. OK the Service start, but it takes a Long time to do so. Becaus of timeouts after that message.
We are using an Oracle DB. Does anybody have similar log entries?
Also i recieve a vCenter Database waring that the Performance statistics rollup from ... to .. is not occouring in the database.
There are also some KB articles. But they do not help to resolve the warning.
VMware KB: Checking the status of vCenter Server performance rollup jobs
VMware KB: Verifying jobs and stored procedures installed in vCenter Server 5.1 and 5.5
I could see the Jobs in the db. See the attachment
Thanks for any helpful comments
Frank