Potential causes of
vpxd service failing on vCenter Server for Windows include, but not limited to:
- Inability to connect to the vCenter Server database, especially when it is on an external server
- Other database problems, such as bad or corrupt information in tables or in the ODBC configuration file
- Corruption of critical .dlls or configuration files in the Windows system
- Disk problems on the vCenter or external database server
- Incompatible plug-ins
- Missing critical vCenter Server files or folders
- Incompatible hardware changes to the vCenter Server machine