topic Unkown connection error in vSphere Hypervisor Discussions

Unkown connection error

Notasandwich — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 16:55:32 GMT

I recently set up Hypervisor 6.5 on an external hard drive and downloaded the most recent vsphere client. I am getting this message whenever I try connecting to the address I had set up in the options menu.

I know next to nothing about virtualization and this is my first attempt at using vmware as I am trying to set up my own lab so that I can learn to use vmware and maybe install an evaluation copy of windows server 2012 to learn how to use Active Directory.

I have made sure that I am using the correct host name and ip address when trying to log in from the client and made sure the ESX host had network connectivity so I am not sure what else I can do. Please help

Re: Unkown connection error

PCTechStream — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 13:11:30 GMT

Did you create "Forward and Reverse Lookup DNS records" before installing the Hypervisor 6.5?

Did you run "Test Management Network" from the esxi to ping & resolve Hostaname?

Did you configure the firewall, for testing just try to disable it...

Re: Unkown connection error

Notasandwich — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 16:43:12 GMT

I did run test management network prior to booting back in to Windows and it pinged everything normally

I tried logging in again after disabling the default Windows 7 firewall and I continue to get the same error

I did no make a DNS record prior to installing the hypervisor and I don't know what that is

Re: Unkown connection error

PCTechStream — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 17:52:54 GMT

vSphere Client is no longer available with the vSphere 6.5 release

Try The vSphere Web Client (Flash/Flex client)

The vSphere Web Client is supported on Chrome (latest and latest -1), Firefox (latest and latest -1), and IE10.0.19 and later (including IE11).

EXAMPLE:

https://YourESXIName.YourDomain.xxx/ui/#/login

https://YourESXIName-or-IP/ui/#/login

Re: Unkown connection error

Notasandwich — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 18:26:43 GMT

I have tried logging in via the IP address that I had configured within ESXI but I only get "site cannot be reached" message. Am I not supposed to suppose to have the ip address, DNS, subnet mask and gateway address be identical to the one used by my desktop? They currently are but I have also tried different IP addresses, all with the same results