ESXi 5.1 host disconnected after running the Rescan datastore ?

[AlbertWT]

Hi All,

Can anyone here please help me with the troubleshooting of the strange behaviour of my newly migrated ESXi 5.1 u1 host.

I'm trying to rescan the datastore in this one particular ESXi host only, but somehow it failed miserably with the host left being disconnected ?

I have connected to the SSH console of the host and issued the restart command to restart the management agent but it hangs in the SSH console, the ESXi host is not responding and still disconnected ?

~ # services.sh restart

Running vmware-fdm stop

Stopping vmware-fdm:success

Running xorg stop

Running wsman stop

Stopping openwsmand

Openwsmand is not running.

Running sfcbd stop

This operation is not supported.

Please use /etc/init.d/sfcbd-watchdog stop

Running snmpd stop

root: snmpd is not running.

Running sfcbd-watchdog stop

sh: bad number

sh: you need to specify whom to kill

sfcbd is not running.

Connect to localhost failed: Connection failure

Connect to localhost failed: Connection failure

Running vpxa stop

vpxa is not running

Connect to localhost failed: Connection failure

Running vobd stop

vobd is not running

Running dcbd stop

dcbd is not running

Running smartd stop

smartd is not running

Running lacp stop

lacp is not running

Running memscrubd stop

memscrubd is not running

Running cdp stop

cdp is not running

Running slpd stop

Stopping slpd

Running hostd stop

hostd is not running.

Running sensord stop

sensord is not running

Running storageRM stop

storageRM is not running

Running rhttpproxy stop

rhttpproxy is not running.

Running lbtd stop

net-lbt is not running

Running usbarbitrator stop

usbarbitrator is not running

Running SSH stop

SSH login disabled

VobUserLib_Init failed with -1

Connect to localhost failed: Connection failure

Errors:

Invalid operation requested: This ruleset is required and connot be disabled

Running DCUI stop

Disabling DCUI logins

VobUserLib_Init failed with -1

Running DCUI restart

Enabling DCUI login: runlevel =

VobUserLib_Init failed with -1

Running SSH restart

Connect to localhost failed: Connection failure

SSH login enabled

VobUserLib_Init failed with -1

Running usbarbitrator restart

Any idea and suggestion please let me know.

Thanks

[continuum]

Hi Albert
did you ever got this resolved ?
I am having similar problems - one LUN can not be mounted - even getting the partitiontable with partedUtil results in an I/O error.

I also get the message "VobUserLib_Init failed with -1" when trying to restart te services.
All hosts in my Cluster were disconnected from VCenter and on most of the hosts I cant even log in via ssh.
Once I found the bad LUN I had to remove it from the storage - once that was done I could slowly get back access to the ESXi hosts.
Now I am trying to recover the LUN ...

[AlbertWT]

Hi Continuum,

It seems that my old array was not fully supported as per this article: VMware Front Experience: Updated: What's the deal with EMC CX arrays not supporting VAAI with vSpher... the old array was EMC CX3-20f while the new LUN is on VNX 5500 is working at the moment with no issue.