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dauphin77
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Issues accessing vcenter vm/vsphere client after reboot of ESXi 5.5 host

Howdy ya'll,

Looking to you all for guidance. I had an issue with a vm that got hung up and could not power off. After multiple failed attempts to power down the VM via the esxi cli, I decided to reboot the individual host (Dell blade server - 16 hosts). Well without realizing, the vcenter server VM was located on this host and I did not power down or relocate to another host. We do have vmotion enabled but unsure if that moved it to another host when I restarted the host.

The host came back up normal but now I cannot access the vcenter VM from the vsphere client or RDP. We did not enable the web client so unsure if I can access that way even though it wasn't setup initially.

How do I go about accessing vcenter and the other 20 VM's I had created? Do I have to make changes via the esxi cli?

Any guidance would be appreciated!

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rh5592
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If vSphere HA is enabled in your cluster, then the vCenter VM was powered on in one of your other hosts. I suspect the services did not start properly after an HA triggered power-on. Suggest to locate the vCenter VM by logging into each host using root account and once found, console in to the vCenter VM and check the services.

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krish290785
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when you say, you cannot access the vCenter VM, is it not visible on the host or you cannot Power on the vCenter VM and access the console of the host.? Is yes, can you locate the VM on the other hosts.?

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rh5592
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If vSphere HA is enabled in your cluster, then the vCenter VM was powered on in one of your other hosts. I suspect the services did not start properly after an HA triggered power-on. Suggest to locate the vCenter VM by logging into each host using root account and once found, console in to the vCenter VM and check the services.

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dauphin77
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Thanks Rommel! Apparently the vcenter vm never migrated over to another host it simply was powered off on the original host. Powered the vm back on and am good to go. Thanks again.

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