When troubleshooting or following certain procedures, it is sometimes necessary to restart the "Veritas Enterprise Administrator" (VxSvc) service.

The service can be restarted from Windows Services, or by running the following commands:
net stop vxsvc
net start vxsvc

The restart of Veritas Enterprise Administrator Service will not cause any downtime in non-clustered environments.

WARNING: Restarting the Veritas Enterprise Administrator service (VxSvc) in a clustered environment may cause Volume Manager Disk Group (VMDg) resources to fault.

• For Windows Failover Cluster (WFC): Move any cluster resource groups that contain VMDG resources to another node before restarting VxSvc.

• For Veritas Cluster Server (VCS): Save and close the cluster configuration then stop the High Availability Engine (had.exe) prior to restarting VxSvc using these commands:

hastop -local -force
net stop vxsvc
net start vxsvc
hastart