hostd in hung state

[amanvcp]

Dear Virtualizers,

So, one of my hosts were rebooted the other day, and we opened a case with vMware support. Supports says that beacuse "all paths to one of the datastore failed, hostd went in to hung state and hence was rebooted"

May I please request some gurus here to help me understand this more.

Host is running ESX 4.1.0 260247

Thanks.

[sparrowangelste]

basically since the host lost connection to a datastore it hung.

hostd manages most operations on an esx machine.

hostd  is an app that runs in the Service Console that is responsible for managing  most of the operations on the ESX machine.  It knows about all the VMs  that are registered on that host, the luns/vmfs volumes visible by the host,  what the VMs are doing, etc.  Most all commands or operations come down  from VC through it.  ie, powering on a VM, vmotion'ing it, creating it,  etc. -kitcolbert

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