You navigate to the VMware Web Client and you get this 503 Error: 503 Service Unavailable (Failed to connect to endpoint: [N7Vmacore4Http20NamedPipeServiceSpecE:0x7fe4a805cc90] _serverNamespace = / _isRedirect = false _pipeName =/var/run/vmware/vpxd-webserver-pipe) Cause: (SSL Certificates wouldn’t issue automatically after reboot for service vmware-vpxd Compounded Problem: (Clearing logs under ~/.* **root**) – Specifically, clearing ~/.pgpass ( Lesson Learned: NEVER EVER CLEAR FILES UNDER ~/. Except .bash_history on templates creation only !!!) Fix: Kill all the services running vpxd 1. ps -ef | grep vpxd 2. kill ### 3. Re-add the ~/.pgpass file with the PostGreSQL password 4. vi /et c/vmware-vpx/embedded_db.cfg 5. Copy the password you see between PGUSER_PASSWORD=’ password here ‘ 6. Put the password back in ~/.pgpass localhost:5432:VCDB:postgres: password here localhost:5432:postgres:postgres: password here localhost:5432:VCDB:vc: pas