vmware-pod service stopped on vCenter.

Products

• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

• The vmware-pod service appears to be stopped on the vCenter.
  
  
• vCenter Server is deployed on-premises and not part of a cloud environment like VMC on AWS.

Environment

VMware vCenter Server 8.0.3

Resolution

The vmware-pod service is not required for "on-premises" vCenter deployments and can be disabled.

To disable the service connect to the vCenter from CLI and execute the following command on the bash shell:

# service-control --stop vmware-pod
 
# systemctl disable vmware-pod.service
 
To re-enable the service:
 
# systemctl enable vmware-pod.service

Additional Information

vCenter Appliance /storage/log partition full due to excessive pod-startup.log files

vCenter server is not using configured proxy for all traffic.