I have 2 ESX 3.5 hosts in a VI3 test environment. Each has an MS 2003 server guest and one has an XP guest with the VI client and VC running on it. All VMs are now members of an AD domain. My physical XP box also has the vi client, but is not part of the domain.
Before the XP guest was added to the domain, I could use my physical vi client to log into the xp guest and have full control over all of my vm servers, resource pools and clusters, etc. Since joining the xp guest to the domain, I can only use my physical vi client to log into the 2 hosts individually. When I try to use it to log in to the xp guest now, I get the error message "VMWare infrastructure client could not establish the initial connection with server "
guest ip". Details: A connection failure occurred." If I log into the host and then open the vi client on that XP guest, I can log into the client but all of the VMs show up as not responding even though they all actually work. That also happens if I use remote desktop to get into the guest. Did joining the AD cause some sort of permission change? I haven't been able to find anything quite like this in the forum. Thanks.
