Hi Folks
I'm going around in circles with one of our hosts. It's running an old version of ESXi (4.x) and giving me lots of trouble with connecting. This has not always been the case but for a little while this has been happening. I hope someone can help.
I can SSH to the ESXi host no problem and I can see the three VMs which are running absolutely fine on the host. However, I cannot connect to the host using vSphere client and I cannot get the UI (if this version has UI available) to show. The client gives me the error above:
Call "ServiceInstance.RetrieveContent" for object "ServiceInstance" on Server "xxxxxx.xxxx.co.uk" failed.
If I try to connect to the UI and I get 503 Service Unavailable
If I SSH into the host and do:
~ # /etc/init.d/hostd restart
I get this:
watchdog-hostd: Terminating watchdog with PID 451024458
~ # [450968601] Begin 'hostd ++min=0,swap,group=hostd /etc/vmware/hostd/config.xml', min-uptime = 60, max-quick-failures = 1, max-total-failures = 1000000
...and then it just hangs there. I need to use CTRL+C to get back to the prompt.
If I do this:
~ # vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms
Failed to login: Operation was canceled
If I do any other CLI commands I get the same as above.
This host has been running for a long time. We have never had a problem like this with it before. I would sincerely appreciate some help with this. The three VMs running on it are critical to our business and although they are all working fine, I am really concerned.
Many thanks
Chris
