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BrendanMarmont
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ESXi5 host - Disconnected but VMs still online - Help!

We have a host that has played up since the removal of a DS (Not sure if this is relevant or not). It is now in a disconnected state, VMs are still online.

Should I just try restarting the management services? I need to be carefull as there is 30+ live VMs on that host.

The host has 2x1GbE onboard adapters connected for management, is this an acceptable method, or should I be using NIOC and create a virtual vmk management port group in the dvSwitch for this?

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sparrowangelste
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1:

You will have to restart the mangement agents.

depending on whats going on it may even take up to 2 hours to come back.

just watch it in DCUI.

you can also do a services.sh restart and watch what its doing.

also keeep pings going to some vms. ive noticed sometimes that the vms then stop responding.

then you cant do anything but hard boot.

2:

if the restart of hte management agents wont work, then you have to hard reboot the host.

I always wait till after hours in case things go bad.

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BrendanMarmont
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Cool, I will do the restart tonight.

Now the underlying issue, how can that be tracked down? If HA was enabled we'd be in a world of hurt as the guests would evacuate off to another host, not ideal!

Appreciate your time!

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sparrowangelste
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HA wouldnt take the hosts down since you should have datastore heartbeats which would show the other hsots that this host is still active.

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