Could not start the vmware virtualcenter server service on local computer. Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

Good afternoon.

We've seemed to develop a problem with one of our servers running Virtual Center that prevents us from logging in with VSphere.

Windows gives the following error:

Windows could not start the vmware virtualcenter server service on local computer.Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

I checked our app log for errors, and this is what I found:

ODBC error: (08001) - [SQL Native Client]TCP Provider: Timeout error .

Error getting configuration info from the database

• Vpxd::ServerApp::Init Init failed: VpxdVdb::Init(Vdb::GetInstance(), false, false)*

• Failed to intialize VMware VirtualCenter. Shutting down...*

Forcing shutdown of VMware VirtualCenter now

Any idea what might be causing our issue?

I saw a discussion from last year about this where the user was asked to post his error log, but he never did. So I thought I'd give it a shot.

Thanks!