ESXi4.1 Hungs and VM greyed out

[vmhyperv]

Hello,

  We have ESXi4.1.0 502767  its hung and all the VM sitting on its its gryedout but its up and running.I started managment agent but still no response.

Any help on this will be appreicated.A possible host failure has been detected by HA on host in the Cluster

PFA

thanks

vmk

[weinstein5]

I am assuming when you say the VMs are greyed out that this is when you are viewing the vCente rinventory - what it sounds like is there is a problem with the network communication to the vmkernel management port - check the cables coming out of the host nake sure all showing connect lights -

[vmhyperv]

Yes,

We cant ping  default Gateway,Managment network and VMotion  IP address.

thanks

vmk

[weinstein5]

If the VMs are running on the host and are still accessable formt he network let them continute to run while you trouble shoot the networking issue - if they are not accessible thank shut down the host which should allow you to restart the VMs on othe hosts in the cluster - 

[vmhyperv]

Hi,

  Unfortunatley while the HA  was not able to restart the VMs due to HA admission control policy was disabled and in Host isolation response

"Leave VM powered on is selected" so its VMware  suggested to gracefully shutdown the VMs  and then re-boot the ESXi host.But there are other VMs in the cluster running on  different host  shows  orphaned state.Screenshot Attached.Any suggestion what to do with Orphaned VMs  to make running.

thanks

vmk