With over 20 database software platforms, numerous OSes, it would be very hard not to run into problems and incompatibility issues. I’ve had an opportunity to deal with one of those issues over the last few days.

At one of our clients, vCenter 4.1 was running on Windows Server 2008 R2 with SQL Express edition, everything was working as it should until the VMware vCenter services started failing, vSphere client would not authenticate and log system admins into management console, so in other words, major problems as server provisioning and deployments were delayed!

The cause of the issue is pretty obvious because SQL Express editions (free SQL editions) come with certain limitation on the size (4GB or 10GB in some cases) of the database.

Read full article at Virtualization.net

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