we had to shutdown our esxi 6.7 server last night and start it up this morning. When it came up, 6 of our VMs were not recognized and did not boot. I had to go into datastore browser, find the vmx file for each failed VM and select "Register". Then the VMs were recognized and I could start them. But the old "Invalid" registrations still show (see attachment) and I want to know how to get rid of them. This is viewed in a browser connection directly to the host. The vcenter server. As the vcenter server is a VM within this host. The VMs that were not recognized are all ones that were newly created since the last time this host has been rebooted.
Another symptom is that when connect to the vcenter server and click on the affected host,in the summary tab it shows the correct amount of storage but there is no data whatsoever for CPU or Memory. And there is a status message saying "Quick stats on ccv-vmware-stone is not up-to-date Cannot synchronize host ccv-vmware-stone" Also it shows only 2 of the 16 VMs as powered up when in reality 10 of them are powered up.
Note that we have 2 hosts connected to this vcenter server, the other one shows correctly in the vcenter display, it is only the host ccv-vmware-stone that does not synchronize. Both hosts were shutdown last night and started up this morning. Only the one host has this problem, the other one started up normally with no unrecognized VMs. I could try to remove this host from inventory then re-connect it but am not sure if I should find out how to remove the references to unrecognized VMs first.
