A general system error occured: Timed waiting for vpxa to start

I got the error “A general system error occured: Timed waiting for vpxa to start” when I tried to add my newly installed esxi 5.1 server to my VC.
After some research found that my VC version was 5.0 which caused the issue as VC version should be higher or equal to the esxi version.

  1. #1 by gary ryan on October 29, 2013 - 6:21 pm

    Just wanted to say thanks. After reading two unrelated “solutions” from vmware, I found your page, and it looks like this is my fix. I appreciate you posting it!

  2. #2 by Umesh Sivan on September 16, 2014 - 11:04 pm

    Thanks..You saved my day!!!!

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