VMWare Server 2 – RuntimeFault: Database temporarily unavailable or has network problems

If you add a new User (New Permission) to the VMWare Server 2 via the VMware Infrastructure Web Access you may get the message “The server response included one or more errors” with the details “RuntimeFault: Database temporarily unavailable or has network problems”.

To fix this you first have to stop the VMWare management service:

/etc/init.d/vmware-mgmt stop

Now open the file “/etc/vmware/hostd/authorization.xml” and change the value of ‘’ to 50 for example.

After that change you can start the VMWare management service again:

/etc/init.d/vmware-mgmt start

Now you can relogin into the VMware Infrastructure Web Access and add the new user. (If you get the error again, change the value of again to a higher value)

Thanks : mogilowski.net