Software:  VMware vSpehre 5.1 / SQL 2008 R2 After migrating the vCenter database from local SQL 2005 to dedicated 2008 I looked through all the vCenter logs: This appeared in the sms.log [2015-02-20 16:22:29,239 Thread-22  ERROR com.vmware.vim.common.lifecycle.InitializerExecutor] Initialization error; attempt 1202 will begin in 60 seconds… java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: org.apache.commons.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot create PoolableConnectionFactory (The connection to Read More…