Troubleshooting "Failed to Start vAPI Endpoint Service" on vCenter Server 6.x

Products

• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

This article provides the list of articles to resolve the "Failed to start the vAPI Endpoint Service" issue.

Environment

VMware vCenter Server 6.5.x
VMware vCenter Server 6.7.x

Resolution

This table summarizes common errors encountered during vCenter Server installation, upgrade and firstboot related to the vAPI Endpoint Service.
 

Symptoms	Resolution
After upgrading to vCenter 6.5 Update 2 the vAPI Endpoint service fails to start or crashes continually	vmware-vapi-endpoint fails to start or crashes after upgrading to vCenter Server 6.5 Update 2. (342879)
vAPI Endpoint service fails to start when connecting to vCenter Server using vSphere Web Client	"Error [500] SSO error: com.vmware.vim.vmomi.core.exception...." occurs when VMware VAPI Endpoint service fails to start (322851)
Failed to configure vAPI Endpoint Service at the firstboot time' error while upgrading VCSA 6.7 with no DNS record fails	'Failed to configure vAPI Endpoint Service at the firstboot time' error while upgrading VCSA 6.7 with no DNS record fails (338262)
Failed to configure vAPI Endpoint Service at the firstboot time" upgrading vCenter Server Appliance 6.7	"Failed to configure vAPI Endpoint Service at the firstboot time" upgrading vCenter Server Appliance 6.7 (338164)

Note: This table is not exhaustive and may not include all possible error scenarios.