Good afternoon,

I have been managing our company's vCenter Server Virtual Appliance (v6.0) and recently - in the last 3 weeks - I am unable to log into the servers main web portal using the configured administrator account.  I am able to see that the server is running via a vSphere Client to the ESXi host it is installed on, can SSH to it and can log in as the root user under the 5480 port.  I initially was seeing the login page but the user account would not login but now, after an initial restart of the appliance, I am receiving the following error :

503 Service Unavailable (Failed to connect to endpoint: [N7Vmacore4Http20NamedPipeServiceSpecE:0x7f20a006d060] _serverNamespace = / _isRedirect = false _pipeName =/var/run/vmware/vpxd-webserver-pipe)

I am unable to find any references to this specific error on the web although there are a number of posts regarding the 503 error pointing to primarily a database issue.

I have verified the available space on the drives and did a cleanup of the database to clean up any "bloated" tables but still receive the error.

Are there any other suggestions as to the cause and solution to this error?  Do I simply need to "bite the bullet" and re-install the vCenter Server?

Thank you, in advance, for any replies.

GregM