CD/DVD ROM drive is stuck in connecting mode

[AlbertWT]

Hi All,

I am confused now as to why one of my VM CD/DVD Rom Drive is always hang in Connecting mode.

it stays greyed out in both condition VM online and VM offline (turned off)

I have installed VMware tools and it is running perfectly fine.

Change the CD-ROM device type into host and ISO datastore.

Add / Remove the CD-ROM drive again but it will always end up in (Connecting...) mode ?

I have turned off the VM and turn on numerous time but still no luck yet.

FYI, my environment is as follows:

vSphere client 4.1 (build 345043) connected to ESXi 4.1u1

The VM guest is Windows Server 2008 Enterprise 64 bit

Any kind of help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[sabya1232003]

Could you please try to move the VM to other Host and try the same steps ?

If you have only a single host ....then try to restart the VMware services on the host

#service mgmt-vmware restart

[AlbertWT]

Finally,

The solution is that I must close all of the VSphere 4.1 client which connects to three different VCenter. After closing them all and open just one VSphere client that I need all is good.