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vCenter 5.1 re-add hosts fail

Hi all,

Ok....for whatever reason today all hell broke loose on my VMWare Cluster.

vCenter 5.1

3 Hosts connected, at least they were on Friday (HP Gen8 DL380p, 2 x Xeon, 128Gb Mem)

Today I come in and low and behold, two of three hosts are no longer connected.

Follow a few KB articles. One says to log in locally to Host,

remove vpxuser:Done.

Restart MGMT agents:Done

Re add host back into venter.

Fail fail fail.

Error is: Failed to configure the VIM account on host.

Submit Error Report link on same error popup takes me to the KB 2004667, which tells me to do exactly what I just did. This still fails.

Cannot "putty" in..."Server unexpectedly closed network connection" I assume this is because there is no longer a vpxuser account????

I have VM's running on this host that I CANNOT......lets reiterate....that I CANNOT SHUT DOWN.

We run 24/7/365 and I do not have the luxury of stopping and starting VM's at will. I cannot reboot this Host...unless I can vmotion these VM's off, which is not an option because of these 2 Hosts NOT being in the cluster anymore.

Going back into the console to look at logs. pressing numeric keys for log files....does nothing, screen flashes thats about it.

So I am hooped.

On the second host, I have not yet removed the vpxuser account, so when I try an add this Host back into the Cluster I get this error: (Image attached)

But is still has the VIM account issue.

Why or how can this happen??

Any assistance would be grateful.

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