I hate VMware some days.
Inexplicably after some updates our Vcenter stopped starting. Everything and I mean everything pointed to an issue with the SSL self-signed certs VMware generates leading us to these KB's. http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2036760 https://communities.vmware.com/message/2123347 Even though nothing in regard to those had changed the only thing we could find is that some WSUS patches were applied. We even created a SR with VMware which led us through most of the same steps including removing all the vCenter software reinstalling...course all that and the same error continues. So we completely reloaded the server thinking something like .Net or something must be messed up. After all that.... Error still continued. So we thought....hmm only thing we didn't try is starting with a new database.... OK create a completely new database and the error stopped and we can log into VMware.... EXCELLENT - Its somet