Diagnostics for VMware Cloud Foundation: vCenter Appliance Health: Services

Products

• VMware vCenter Server
• VCF Operations

Issue/Introduction

vCenter is the key object for monitoring and reporting as it is the key building block in a VCF environment. Diagnostics helps you with that task and adds value by providing data for reachability, utilization, and services that you cannot derive from legacy tools.

In the Services screen, Diagnostics monitors the critical vCenter services.

Environment

Operations for VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0

vCenter Server

Resolution

Services included in vCenter

Service Name	Service Description	Log Location
envoy	VMware Envoy is a front-end proxy that handles incoming requests on ports 443 and 80	/var/log/vmware/envoy/envoy.log
envoy-hgw	The vmware-envoy-hgw service is essential for vCenter to communicate with ESXi hosts. If this service is stopped or fails, ESXi hosts might be marked as "Not Responding", and you might experience issues connecting to vCenter.	/var/log/vmware/envoy-hgw/envoy.log
envoy-sidecar	Envoy-sidecar is a separate component that acts as a sidecar proxy, handling internal service-to-service communication within the vCenter Appliance.	/var/log/vmware/envoy-sidecar/envoy.log
vmware-vpostgres	VMware Postgres is the vCenter database service	/var/log/vmware/vpostgres/postgresql.log
vpxd	VMware vCenter Server primary service	/var/log/vmware/vpxd/vpxd.log
vsphere-ui	vSphere Web Client service	/var/log/vmware/vsphere-ui/logs/vsphere_client_virgo.log

 

Interacting with vCenter Services

• Stopping, Starting or Restarting VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.x & above services

 

Common Issues 

• vCenter services vapi-endpoint and vpxd-svcs fail to start with "Unexpected status code: 404"
• Unable to start vCenter service.Failed to start sca, vpxd, vpxd-svcs, vapi-endpoint services. Error: A system error occurred