{"id":611,"date":"2011-04-10T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T09:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nico-maas.de\/wordpress\/?p=611"},"modified":"2011-04-04T19:34:45","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T18:34:45","slug":"esxi4-1u1-vcenter-server-startup-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nico-maas.de\/?p=611","title":{"rendered":"[ESXi4.1U1] vCenter Server Startup Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got the vmware virtualcenter server error 1000 odbc error on bootup of my Windows Server 2003 (64bit) which did serve my vCenter Server.<br \/>\nIn fact this did mean in my case: The MSSQL Server didn't boot \/ or too slow, so that vCenter Server came up - couldn't access the DB and shutdown - \"great!\".<br \/>\nLuckily, there is an solution, pointed to by this ( http:\/\/communities.vmware.com\/message\/1247357 ) and this Website ( http:\/\/blogs.egroup-us.com\/?p=1821 )<\/p>\n<p>In the end I solved my problem following:<br \/>\ncmdline:<br \/>\nsc config vpxd depend= rpcSs\/lanmanworkstation\/MSSQL$SQLEXP_VIM\/ADAM_VMwareVCMSDS<\/p>\n<p>With these new dependencies, vCenter should boot up on boot... at least it did that last time... ^^'.<\/p>\n<div class=\"shariff shariff-align-left shariff-widget-align-left\"><ul class=\"shariff-buttons theme-round orientation-horizontal buttonsize-small\"><li class=\"shariff-button printer shariff-nocustomcolor\" style=\"background-color:#a8a8a8\"><a href=\"javascript:window.print()\" title=\"print\" aria-label=\"print\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"shariff-link\" style=\"; 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