Another question via email, “When I reboot the Virtual Center (virtual) machine, why won’t the Virtual Center service run?”
This one challenged me but, I figured out the problem. Virtual center runs on port 80 and if another services runs on 80 it fails. However, the vmware-converter service also runs on port 80 and that starts up first; so, what you have to do is go to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\vmware-converter
and create a Multi-String Value, call it DependOnService. Next, edit the new key and add vpxd. Now the machine should start Virtual Center first and then Vmware Converter. Also, do the same for the VMware Update Manager Service (vmware-ufad-vci). Once you’ve done that, you may have to modify the service startup that if fail first failure to “run a Program” and then have it run:
C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\VirtualCenter Server\vpxd.exe