Hi,
I have a test lab ESXI 5 with vcenter 5 running as a VM on the same host. I tend to power off this host at the end of the day and power on the next day.
For convenient sake, I have turned on auto start up vcenter when the host boots up. So I can use vsphere client to connect to the vcenter.
In vcenter, if I try to power on another VM, it shows "The operation is not allowed in the current state of the host"
This error doesn't happen all the time the host boots up, maybe around 50-50%.
One way that I can clear this error condition is in vcenter select the host and select disconnect then connect.
Another way is to reboot vcenter VM.
I'm puzzled by this funny error condition.
Regards.