Restart services in vCenter

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To restart services in vCenter use following steps:

Note that vCenter management console at https://<vcenter-fqdn>:5480/ allows start/stop of individual services. But since there are too many services, that is not great option to restart all services.

1. SSH to vCenter appliance as root user
2. Type 'shell' to get access to bash
3. Use following to restart services

   service-control  --stop --all
   service-control  --start --all

   Note that there is --restart option but that works only with a single service at a time. Hence to restart all services we must used --stop and --start separately.

Refer:

• https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2109887

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