Power fail - ESXi runs VCenter and VCenter starts but no Web UI

[InterceptorF]

Our external storage went down, we have it back up. I can now see my ESXi systems and the VM's start just fine, however, they are not available per their browser interfaces. I can ping the VM's but no browser access. I created a new VM and it is the only one that is available via Web UI.  

That said, I have an ESXi server (virt-02) that runs two VCenter VM's, the VCenter VM's start however, the VCenter VM says "The configured OS for this VM is incorrect.. " See the .png screenshot. I changed it in the "Edit  Settings> VM Options" to what I believe it to be but it's still saying that.   Also the I P address showing in General Information does not ping for the VCenter VM and in Networking I notice there is "no physical adapters" See the .jpg screenshot.

Any ideas on how to get my Web Presence back is appreciated. Realize, I did not build these and I am not VMW INSTALL savvy - I am a user/admin not a builder/architect.  I inherited them from another person before me who left with no documentation of anything so its an uphill battle. Any logs or such that may help, just let me know what and where to get them. 

Thanks, Chuck 

[battybishop]

Let's try to fix the OS version thing first.

The vCenter appliance should be configured as Guest OS Linux and type Other 3.x or later Linux (64-bit) 

You can only change this when a VM is turned off, so you will have to do this via the ESXi GUI.

[InterceptorF · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the sanity check. I have changed The OS back to what it was previous > "other 3.x or later. "

 On another note, YAY!  After frantic troubleshooting,  I discovered that in the network section of ESXi there were vswitch0 and vswitch1. vswitch0 had an uplink to the host only but vswitch1 which had all the VM's did not per my screenshot. I added another physical nic at the host and a cable to the physical switch, assigned the vnic1 that became enabled in VMWare to the vswitch1 and now my VCenter and other VM's are working in my browser. I don't know why I had to modify the connectivity as it did work without two nics before but its now working (This has happened in just the last 10 minutes). I was considering this as an RGE ( resume generating event) but I think I may be ok now! 

[battybishop]

nice result for a Friday