Yellow Exclamatory mark on ESX Host

[kristein]

Iam seeing yellow exclamatory sign on three of the ESX hosts, any ideas what are they trying to inform

[MikeS1983]

Hi,

Highlight one of the hosts and click on alarms in VI. Does this tell you anything?

Mike

[RParker]

Usually indicates resource contention. The ESX may not be complaining, but the Virtual Center sets a threshold for CPU and Memory. One of those is over the warning limit, and that's why the mark.

[mehul96]

These typically indicate that there is an alarm triggered for the host. Highlight the host and click on alarms tab and select triggered alarms. I would expect to see one or more alarms

Mehul

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[kristein]

No there are no triggered alarms neither they are related to resource contention, in summary tab it says ESX hosts currently has no managemnt network redundancy, any ideas?

[dominic7 · Accepted solution]

That's why you have the alert. vCenter will complain if you don't have a redundant service console, either 2 physical nics connected ( and active ) for the vSwitch that has the service console, or 2 seperate service consoles that each have their own vSwitch.

[Troy_Clavell]

here is a good KB article with options on how to resolve your issue

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1004700