Wow, what a bungled mess 5.5 has been. I have seen this happen on more than 1 installation.
On a fresh install of vCenter 5.5.0 (build number 1378903 which is supposed to be the fixed 'a' release), the vCenter service won't start after the server is rebooted. This is running on a Windows 2008 R2 virtual machine. I thought 5.5.0a was supposed to fix all these vCenter problems?
I've looked at
but that article says the issue is supposed to be fixed in 5.5.0a, which, for me, it isn't. I order to get the vCenter service to run I have to go through a process of stopping/starting the Secure Token Service and Identity Management Service, etc.
Anyone know of a FIX for this?