Physical Server 2012R2 VCenter 6 server was cleanly shutdown for some hardware maintenance and booted up fine afterwards.
During shutdown this event was logged in the Application log:
The description for Event ID 1000 from source VMware VirtualCenter Server cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.
If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event.
The following information was included with the event:
Initiating VMware VirtualCenter shutdown
the message resource is present but the message is not found in the string/message table
After boot most of the Vcenter services had not started, nor could they be manually started. I traced it back to the first failure logged in the System log:
The VMware HTTP Reverse Proxy service terminated with the following service-specific error:
Incorrect function.
I cannot start this service manually it fails with the same error. All other services fail with a dependancy error.
This is extremely frustrating because we upgraded this server from Server 2008R2 for the same reason, Services would fail to start. When it had Server 2008R2 its was running 5.1, we tried upgrading to 6 but it failed and we could not resolve it, so we completely removed Vcenter and tried a fresh install, this failed until I managed to "trick" the installer by altering the VMware vCenter workflow manager service to run as local system otherwise it always failed. So we got it installed and running, then after the first reboot just failed to start the services!!! So we fresh installed Windows 2012R2, installed VCenter without any AV or other "cruft" to ensure it would work, which it did. Now the darn thing just fails like this again!
DNS is functiong fine and the server has survived a number of restarts yesterday, No idea why it would just fail now!
James