Can't connect to ESX Server

[nicam19]

Hey Guy's

My Boss gave me the job to Upgrade our ESX Server 2.5.2 to the new 3.0.2 with the Upgrade CD Downloaded from the VMware page. That worked fine but now i can't connect to the ESX Server with the VI-Client or the Webaccess, the only ways to connect are SSH and SFTP.

Have you any ideas what could be the problem?

EDIT:

i was never asked for the license during the update could that be the problem? Please help me :smileygrin:

greetings from switzerland

nicam

[merse]

Have you tried restarting the relevant services:

service mgmt-vmware restart

service vmware-webAccess restart

[nicam19]

hey thanks for your response,

yeah I tried that a few times but without any success, i get emediatly the response can't display page.

If i try:

# telnet localhost 80

# telnet localhost 443

# telnet localhost 902

ill get connection refused on port 80 and 443 but it seams to work with 902.

i allowed all the firewall connections with:

#esxcfg-firewall --allowIncoming

#esxcfg-firewall --allowOutgoing

but still the same results?

what could that be?

[merse]

Is rebuilding the host an option? I don't want to sound like copping out but it might actually be quicker than diagnosing this - I've had a couple of weird problems with upgrades and now only do clean installs...

[nicam19]

Hmm I know now that it's definatly not a firewall problem, is there anything else that could cause that?

where do i find the webservice?

[merse]

Have you run the command "service webAccess status" to check that web is running?

[nicam19]

well when i run the command "service webAccess status" it responds me unrecognized service

but when I execute "top"

it shows me lot's of services called webAccess

what does this mean?

thanks for all your help

[merse]

Can you post the output of the following command please:

"lsof -i|grep web"

And I typo'd my last post - command should be "service vmware-webAccess status" :smileyalert:

Cheers

[nicam19]

hey

here i executed the commands:

# service vmware-webAccess status

webAccess (pid 820) is running...

# lsof -i|grep web

webAccess 820 root 5u IPv4 2573 TCP *:webcache (LISTEN)

webAccess 820 root 11u IPv4 3859 TCP *:8009 (LISTEN)

webAccess 820 root 12u IPv4 3862 TCP localhost.localdomain:8005 (LISTEN)

thanks alot

[merse]

Well that's the expected output...

Can you tell me a bit more about your environment please? How many hosts, was the pre upgrade perl script run before the upgrade, was the SAN connected during the upgrade, and any general info on the infrastructure...

Thanks

[nicam19]

hey

i executed

vmware-hostd

then i could connect with my webbrowser and with my vi-client

but know i don't see all my virtual machines only 4 of them

but thanks anyway

[merse]

Well glad you've got your access back... How many virtual machines should there be? Are they located on local storage or SAN?

[nicam19]

hmm i thing about 12 or 15

they are all located on the local storrage i have no SAN

[merse]

Can you see the vmdk files on the vmfs partitions?

[nicam19]

hey

it's half past 8 in the evening where i live

thanks for all your help, I will check this tomorrow

Have a nice day or evening

[nicam19]

hey dude

yeah the .vmfs files are still on the server

[heybuzzz · Accepted solution]

rt click the .vmx file of the machines not listed under the vmfs folder and see if it gives you the option to "add to inventory". Sounds like they got de registered.