VI Client - Connection Failure occurs, however port is open. Ideas?

[jmoorse]

Folks,

Every so often one of our ESXi 3.5 hosts loses VI client access with 'a connection failure occurred', however I can telnet to port 902 and pull a banner.

The guests appear unaffected and are running fine.

The only step that resolved this last time was a full reboot of the host. Restarting mgmt agents and network appeared to do nothing.

Ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Jeff

[AntonVZhbankov]

VI Client uses port 902 to connect to VM console, and 443 to manage ESX.

Take a look at networking diagram: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31838982@N08/3103670464/sizes/l/

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[jmoorse]

Confirmed, 443 is not responding on the host in question. Another host responds fine on 443.

Is there an easy way to restart secure web services?

[AntonVZhbankov]

Very strange situation, restarting management agents should help.

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MCSA, MCTS, VCP, VMware vExpert '2009

http://blog.vadmin.ru