Impact if we restart Management Agent

[MrVmware9423]

Dear team,

Before restarting below service what things needs to be taken care of

if restart hostd  service what will be the impact

if I restart vpxa service what will be the impact

if I restart all management agent service then what will the impact

regards

Mr Vmware

[khaliqamar]

i think it will kill the ongoing snapshot process.

[POCEH]

Wrong forum is this.
🙂

[MrVmware9423]

can some one tell me if restart management agent what will be the impact on ESXi , vCenter, backup, Clone, network etc...

[Wh33ly]

Take a look at this one:

VMware KB: Restarting the Management agents on an ESXi or ESX host

Caution: Restarting the management agents may impact any tasks that may be running on the ESXi/ESX host at the time of the restart

See also a previous post

what is difference between hostd, Vpxa and vpxd.

Or take a google hit :

What is hostd and vpxa ? | VM.Blog.

Virtualization The Future: Vmware hostd and vpxa on ESXi 5.X