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WillL
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local datastore inactive in vCenter but accessible in SSH, how to fix?

Hello,

One of ESXi hosts showing "not responding" in vCenter, all VMs on it are "disconnected", it appears the two local datastores are "inactive", but I can still SSH to the hosts, and both local datastores are mounted and browsable.

How to fix this? reboot?

Thanks.

William

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athlon_crazy
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You may want to restart your ESXi management service first.

http://www.no-x.org

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athlon_crazy
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You may want to restart your ESXi management service first.

http://www.no-x.org
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mittim12
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I second restarting the management agents before a reboot. 

WillL
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I restarted Management Network via ESXi Console but didn't help, is this the same as you suggested?

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WillL
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Restarted Mgmt Agents, everything back online.

By the way, KB 1003490 was wrong, the option is under  "Troubleshooting Mode Options".

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jamesbowling
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You could attempt to disconnect the host in vCenter and then add it back in.  If this doesn't work then I would suggest possibly restarting the management agents either from the DCUI or services.sh restart.

Dang slow reply...  Smiley Happy

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dle80
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make some changes on the datastore such as adding another disk to that datastore then the inactive error will disappear.

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