Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Exchange Server 2010 Information Store Service not starting on Vmware VM


Exchange Server 2010 Information Store not starting

I Came across this issue when i tried to restart the Information Store Service.
All started when a backup exec jobs failed with an error and caused the VSS Microsoft Exchange Writer to be unstable and stack on "Retryable error".

A restart off the service and the server did not solve the problem till I found some logs and discussion about this problem on the web telling that there maybe a time difference between the vm and the vm host.

So I checked the vm host for time And found out that it is was just a couple minutes apart, so I have updated the time on the host and added NTP time server, restarted the exchange vm and all services started just fine:
 
 

 
 
 
The environment in question was vsphere 5.1 with 5.1 esxi host and a vm exchange 2010