We have a cluster in our environment called xXXXX. Recently one of our virtual servers xxxxxx migrated from One ESX host
to another ESX Host.
It was then discovered that a service running on this server stopped
working properly.
The service is called the commservice and uses ports 1098 and 1099
(Port 1098 is used for LOGIN request).
The service is used to communicate to client laptops which connect to
the server to drop data off and pick data up.
The problem was that while clients could drop data off they could not
pick data up, and the app team found that running the commservice in
debug mode showed that the 'created pipes were hanging or blocked.'
After investigating the app I realised that the server had recently
been migrated from ESX04 to ESX05 as we had a situation where we had to
put ESX04 in maintenance mode. When I migrated the server back to ESX04
the commservice started to work again, so it appears that the issue is
with ESX05.
ESX04 (DL 585 G1)and ESX05 (DL 585 G2) are slightly different model
servers, but a similar server xxxxxx runs the same commservice
successfully on ESX07 which is also a DL 585 G2, so it appears the
problem is exclusive to ESX05.
Do you have any ideas what the issue could be? Please let me know the suggestion.
