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vmware-vpxa restart posted: Jan 3, 2008 11:05 AM

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virtual Vic
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Oct 23, 2006

What will "vmware-vpxa restart" do?

I have a host with some VMs on it that is part of an VI3 cluster. It stopped communicating so I tried to reconnect the host via Virtual Center. This failed. I logged in to the host via Putty and did the service mgmt-vmware restart but still I could not reconnect the host in Virtual Center. The VMs are live on the host and no network settings have been changed. My question is, will running vmware-vpxa restart kill the VMs on that host?

Thanks

-Vic

Re: vmware-vpxa restart

1. Jan 3, 2008 11:10 AM in response to: virtual Vic
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fordian
314 posts since
Mar 20, 2006
Hello,

vmware-vpxa is installed only when connected to VC. To date I never had any problems when restarting this service. VMs stay alive and working because VMs do not depend directly from VC but from the ESX Server.

I think you can even stop this service without causing any damages on VMs.

Thank you

Dominic

Re: vmware-vpxa restart

2. Jan 3, 2008 11:13 AM in response to: virtual Vic
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jayolsen
547 posts since
Jul 31, 2006

Might check the last entry in this post, sounds similiar. xinetd service restart

http://communities.vmware.com/message/828264#828264

Re: vmware-vpxa restart

3. Jan 3, 2008 11:34 AM in response to: jayolsen
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bvdkolk
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Feb 14, 2006
Had this problem with a older esx (2.5.2) host, in that case the server was running out of diskspace.. can check this with the 'df -h' or 'vdf -h' command

Re: vmware-vpxa restart

4. Jan 3, 2008 12:21 PM in response to: bvdkolk
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virtual Vic
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Oct 23, 2006

Hello all,

I just wanted to reply to everyone. I've tried the following:

service mgmt-vmware restart
service vmware-vpxa resrtart

I haven't restarted the xinetd service. Will that kill my VMs. These VMs are in production so killing them is a very last option, since they are operational. What does xinetd actually do?

Thanks again,

-Vic

Re: vmware-vpxa restart

5. Jan 7, 2009 1:28 PM in response to: virtual Vic
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SKGeorge
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Jan 4, 2008

service mgmt-vmware restart
service vmware-vpxa restart

Will not kill your running VMs. If you are trying to Re-sync with the VC, stop the VC service (on the server running VirtualCenter), restart these 2 services and then start the VC service. We have found that this will normally re-sync the ESX host with the VC.

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