I upgraded our vcenter server from 5.5.0c (heartbleed fix) to 5.5u1b (new SSL fix) yesterday.
Everything went fine during the upgrade.
After I rebooted the vCenter server (Windows 2008 physical server with a remote SQL 2008 db) it took 45 minutes for the vCenter Service to start in Windows.
It was stuck in a 'starting' state that entire time. I had given up assuming it was broken after 30 or so minutes.
While looking for the VMware tech support # I noticed the service FINALLY started.
My questions are:
1. Anyone having a very long vCenter service start up times?
2. Where can I look to see why it took so long?
3. Any fixes?
I am reluctant to reboot that server again because I don't want to have to wait 45 minutes before I can log back into vCenter. I want to troubleshoot as far as I can without rebooting for right now.
Thanks!