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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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which version of VC? – Chopper3 Feb 13 '10 at 0:33
vCenter Vs. 4.0 – Alan Feb 15 '10 at 13:29
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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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I can confirm this is a problem that can sometimes happen. I've done the above and the problem for me went away completely. – Stephen Thompson Feb 13 '10 at 3:49
This is a similar problem… but not the same. My service stops about an hour after a clean, successful reboot – Alan Feb 15 '10 at 13:27
Is there anything in the systems logs regarding the stopping ? – mat Feb 15 '10 at 16:28
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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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