vpxd-svcs service fails to start after patching vCenter appliance from 7U3x to 7U3x

Products

• VMware vCenter Server
• VMware vCenter Server 7.0

Issue/Introduction

• Error when attempting to start vpxd-svcs:

Could not resolve placeholder 'dataservice.access.logging.maxDays'
  
  
• After patching vCenter appliance from 7U3x to 7U3x, vpxd-svcs service does not start
• vCenter - /var/log/vmware/vpxd-svcs/vpxd-svcs.log:

[YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS] [main [] INFO  com.vmware.vim.dataservices.VpxdSvcsMain  opId=] Starting service via vmon
[YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS] [main [] WARN  org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext  opId=] Exception encountered during context initialization - cancelling refresh attempt: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Invalid bean definition with name 'isAccessLogCreated' defined in class path resource [server-config.xml]: Could not resolve placeholder 'dataservice.access.logging.maxDays' in value "${dataservice.access.logging.maxDays}"; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Could not resolve placeholder 'dataservice.access.logging.maxDays' in value "${dataservice.access.logging.maxDays}"
[YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS] [main [] ERROR com.vmware.vim.dataservices.VpxdSvcsMain  opId=] start: Tagging and Authz services failed to start
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Invalid bean definition with name 'isAccessLogCreated' defined in class path resource [server-config.xml]: Could not resolve placeholder 'dataservice.access.logging.maxDays' in value "${dataservice.access.logging.maxDays}"; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Could not resolve placeholder 'dataservice.access.logging.maxDays' in value "${dataservice.access.logging.maxDays}"

Environment

VMware vCenter Server 7.0.3

Cause

During patching, the following file fails to update: /var/lib/vmware/vpxd-svcs/config/dataservice.properties.

On the affected vCenter, the following file contains:

Resolution

Update the missing entries in the /var/lib/vmware/vpxd-svcs/config/dataservice.properties file.

1. Take a backup of the file
   
   cp /var/lib/vmware/vpxd-svcs/config/dataservice.properties /root/
   
   
2. Edit the file
   
   vi /var/lib/vmware/vpxd-svcs/config/dataservice.properties
   
   
3. Insert the lines below, after the 'vpxdsvcs.version' line:
   
   dataservice.access.logging.maxDays=0
dataservice.access.logging.checkExists=true
dataservice.access.logging.maxSize=1048576
dataservice.access.logging.frequencySeconds=600
   
   
4. Save the file with
   
   :wq!
   
   
5. Start the vpxd-svcs service
   
   service-control --start vpxd-svcs

Additional Information

Note: Make sure to backup the file before performing any modification.