I have the same issue (I think). After (clean) install on Win2k8 R2 VM, I start up the server. It worked fine, I was able to logon via the vSphere client. To increase performance. I stopped the vCenter Server service, shutdown the machine. I doubled Memory from 8gb to 16gb via vSphere client directly on the ESX host.
When the server came back online, the vCenter service would/will not start.
I checked the forums and several documents (Checking ODBC DSN, NSLOOKUP)
My log looks as follow :
2013-05-25T13:17:32.513+02:00 [01508 info 'ThreadPool'] Thread enlisted
2013-05-25T13:17:34.245+02:00 [02828 info 'ThreadPool'] Thread enlisted
2013-05-25T13:17:35.571+02:00 [02020 error 'Default'] Found dangling SSL error: [0] error:00000001:lib(0):func(0):reason(1)
2013-05-25T13:17:35.571+02:00 [02020 error 'Default'] Found dangling SSL error: [1] error:00000001:lib(0):func(0):reason(1)
2013-05-25T13:17:35.617+02:00 [02020 error '[SSO][SsoFactory_CreateFacade]'] Unable to create SSO facade: vmodl.fault.SystemError.
2013-05-25T13:17:35.649+02:00 [02020 warning 'VpxProfiler'] Vpxd::ServerApp::Init [Vpx::Common::Sso::SsoFactory_CreateFacade(sslContext, ssoFacadeConstPtr)] took 3838 ms
2013-05-25T13:17:35.649+02:00 [02020 error 'vpxdvpxdMain'] [Vpxd::ServerApp::Init] Init failed: Vpx::Common::Sso::SsoFactory_CreateFacade(sslContext, ssoFacadeConstPtr)
--> Backtrace:
--> backtrace[00] rip 000000018018aa3a
--> backtrace[01] rip 0000000180102b18
--> backtrace[02] rip 0000000180103f3e
--> backtrace[03] rip 000000018008d6db
--> backtrace[04] rip 00000000003b5c2c
--> backtrace[05] rip 00000000003d6512
--> backtrace[06] rip 0000000140492821
--> backtrace[07] rip 000000014048c63c
--> backtrace[08] rip 00000001406acbeb
--> backtrace[09] rip 000007fefddaa82d
--> backtrace[10] rip 000000007730652d
--> backtrace[11] rip 000000007759c521
-->
2013-05-25T13:17:35.664+02:00 [02020 warning 'VpxProfiler'] ServerApp::Init [TotalTime] took 50949 ms
2013-05-25T13:17:35.664+02:00 [02020 error 'Default'] Failed to intialize VMware VirtualCenter. Shutting down...
2013-05-25T13:17:35.664+02:00 [02020 info 'vpxdvpxdSupportManager'] Wrote uptime information
2013-05-25T13:17:42.138+02:00 [01888 warning 'VpxProfiler' opID=SWI-d04e6970] VpxUtil_InvokeWithOpId [TotalTime] took 12558 ms
2013-05-25T13:17:47.130+02:00 [02020 info 'Default'] Forcing shutdown of VMware VirtualCenter now
I tried a lot of things but nothing seems to help.
Please Help