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The VMware VirtualCenter Server service terminated unexpectedly

Ivo Beerens
Date : September 25, 2008
Categories : esx ,virtualcenter ,VMware
Tags : error ,virtualcenter ,VMware

After rebooting the VMware VirtualCenter (VC) server, i was unable to logon using the VI-client in VC. In the Windows event log the following Error is listed: Event Type: Error Event Source: Service Control Manager Event Category: None Event ID: 7031 Date: 25-9-2008 Time: 13:39:58 User: N/A …

Choosing between SQL 2005 Express or SQL standard/Enterprise for the VC database

Ivo Beerens
Date : September 9, 2008
Categories : virtualcenter ,VMware-35
Tags : sql ,vc ,virtualcenter

VMware VirtualCenter uses standard the Micrososft SQL Express 2005 database. The statement of VMware is: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express is intended to be used for small deployments of up to 5 hosts and 50 virtual machines Microsoft SQL 2005 Expresss supports 1 CPU, 1 GB of RAM and a maximum …