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sseereddyge
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Hostd service problem

Hi,

Could you please some one help me on this problem.

Description:  I have just upgrade my HP DL 580 server from ESX 4.1 to ESXi 5.1 U1 through update manager.  after upgrade & restart the physical host it is not able to reconnect to the vcenter server 5.1.  even i am not able to connect through vsphere client - showing " the remote server returned an error: (503) Server unavailable.

I found there is "hostd" service is not running in ESXi 5.1 server.  i started manually but after 10 secs it is going to not running status.

Regards

Srinuvasu.S

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john23
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can you give the /var/log/hostd.log details...

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sseereddyge
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Hi John,

I am mostly getting similar kind of logs as below.

hostd.jpg

Regards

Srini

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john23
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From logs not more information is coming

hostd was not detected to be running.. if trivia logs can check ..may help

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sseereddyge
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Hi John,

Please tell me any alternate way to generate hostd.logs.  i am not able to connect esxi host from vSphere client, not able to add into vcenter server to generate.

Srini

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john23
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check this out:VMware KB: Increasing VMware vCenter Server and VMware ESX/ESXi logging levels

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