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WesTopping
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ESX server is up and online but will not reconnect to Virtualcenter.

This weekend I updated all of my ESX servers to build 84374. The last one I did now refuses to connect back to virtualcenter. I am able to SSH to the box and I have tried rebooting, restarting the VC agent and restarting hostd. Any ideas?

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Troy_Clavell
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you may want to try to install the VC agent manually, then try adding it back.

http://vmware-land.com/Vmware_Tips.html#ESX6

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anh
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Are you using the FQDN's when you add the server ?

Is DNS working on the host ?

Regards

Anders Hansen

Regards Anders Hansen
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WesTopping
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Tried to reinstall the VC agent. Still no Dice.

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WesTopping
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Double checked my DNS settings. All looks good.

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Troy_Clavell
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what error message are you getting when trying to add the host into VC?

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WesTopping
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Here is the error message:

Unable to access the specified host. It either does not exist, the server software in not responding, or there is a network problem.

Also unable to directly connect with the virtualcenter client or open the webpage to the box.

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WesTopping
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here is a bit from my hostd.log when I restarted it.

Storage data synchronization policy set to invalidate_change

undoAttempts(15), timeoutMsec(2000)

Resource pool configuration: /etc/vmware/hostd/pools.xml

Datastore auto-refresh is disabled.

Datastore alias configuration file is /etc/vmware/hostd/datastores.xml

VM autostart configuration: /etc/vmware/hostd/vmAutoStart.xml

A vmkevent client is already registered with the channel 'hostd'

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