vCenter Server Appliance Service fails after upgrading ESXi hosts to 5.0 U1 Veeam backups now fail

Scenario

You’ve just upgraded your ESXi hosts from 5.0 to 5.0 U1. They updated fine and there are no issues with the VMs. However, you have noticed that your Veeam backups have started to fail.

Further investigation shows the vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) service is not running.

Solution

The DB2 log settings are too frugal, so we need to change these settings.

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