Regarding services running on esxi

[abhilashhb]

Hi All,

When we do a restart of services on the esxi host we see the following daemons  being stopped and restarted....so restarting a service is restarting the daemon?
These below are all the services that run on an esxi host?
And when we tell Vcenter services are they the services that are installed on the server operating system where Vcenter is deployed(i've attached a image of it)??

Can someone tell me what these below services do??

vmware-fdm

vslad

svm-autostart

sfcbd-watchdog

usbarbitrator

vmware-vpxa

wsman

slpd

vprobed

vobd

storageRM

sensord

lbtd

hostd

TSM(tech support mode)-SSH

ntpd

DCUI

TSM

it would be very helpful if someone gives a document where info about the services are given.

thank u in advance.

[vcpguy]

Abhilash, I am having a littlebit hard time understanding your question. Do you want to know what vCenter services are OR you want to know the ESXi services ?

[abhilashhb]

Actually both....I want to know both the services running on esxi and also Vcenter.
It will be very helpful if u provide some info.

Thank you.

[vcpguy]

For vCenter services refer this link. http://vcp4.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/vcenter-ports-vcenter-services/

I am still looking for the ESXi servies

[abhilashhb]

which are these? esxi services??

[vcpguy]

I dont know all of them, I know few of them like

Vmware-fdm - Related with HA

vslad - Related with vce agent

svm-autostart - used for vShield

sfcbd-watchdog - It monitors you server health status like processor,Memory,PowerSupply.

usbarbitrator - Realted USB devices a

vmware-vpxa - Used when ESXi is added to vCenter server

wsman - Web Services for Management used with Powershell and management

slpd - Service Location Protocol Daemon (SLPD)

vprobed - a  utility for running the vProbe daemon. VProbes is a facility for  transparently instrumenting a powered-on guest operating system, its  currently running processes, and VMware's virtualization software.  VProbes provides, both dynamically and statically.

vobd

storageRM

sensord

lbtd

hostd

TSM(tech support mode)-SSH - Use to log into the ESXi box via SSH

ntpd - Network time service daemon

DCUI - Use to manage ESXi server - that yellow screen...

TSM

Check this link for more info - http://www.datadisk.co.uk/html_docs/vmware/cheatsheet.htm

[vcpguy]

Another link - http://www.scribd.com/doc/58439810/Esxi-Process

[abhilashhb]

Hey vcpguy that was very helpful
Thanks a ton.

[vcpguy]

don't worry yaar