Startup after power outage

[rboteler]

Hi Everyone,

We have had a couple of power outages recently, where our UPS has had to shutdown our 2 ESX 3.5 hosts and our VC Server 2.5, this has all been done gracefully with agents installed on both the hosts and the VC server.

When the power comes back the SAN, 2 Hosts, Networking and VC server come back up.

However when you open the Infrastructure client both hosts are disconected (despite them running fine). Then all you need to do to wake them up is right click the hosts and select "connect"... Is there any way for VC to do this automatically?

Once the hosts are re-conected all the vm's are labeled "inaccessible" and you have to reboot the hosts to get those vm's back.

I have checked the licensing is all ok... and you can ping both hosts too...

Any ideas? cos im totally baffled

[Cameron2007]

you should be able to get the guest VMs back by re-registering them. Browse to the data store right click and add to inventory. In order to connect the hosts stop/start/ reiread lic file on the FlexLM server may help. Failing that putty onto the hosts and restart network services. Hope this helps

[alanrenouf]

You can also do this quite easily and quickly using the VI toolkit for Windows (powershell)

[rboteler]

Thanks for the pointers, If the "inaccessable" issue rears itself again I will try your tip.

I'm just having a looking through the VI toolkit blogs now, it makes some interesting reading...

Surely though as everything was shut down properly, the entire setup should come back seamlessley without anyone having to check the setup (im hoping this doesnt happen half way through the night, otherwise I may get a wake up call).