vCenter service in the Windows server is down - in our POC environment.
our vCenter admin account "administrator@vSphere.local" got locked.
we have tried to reset the password using the below link:
it didn't work, so we restarted the windows VM once.
the services are not coming up after that
Error message in vSphere web client landing page:
503 Service Unavailable (Failed to connect to endpoint: [class Vmacore::Http::NamedPipeServiceSpec:0x00000055c01b6c40] _serverNamespace = / action = Allow _pipeName =\\.\pipe\vmware-vpxd-webserver-pipe)
Error message while Restarting the services using command line tool:
Service-control failed. Error: Failed to start services in profile ALL. RC=1, st
derr=Failed to start vapi-endpoint, sca, vpxd-svcs services. Error: Operation ti
med out