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VSCA 6.5 Had Power failure All ESXI Hosts Not Responding

vCenter 6.5 Appliance running on one of my 8 ESXI hosts.

Lost power to my place for several hours and just able to get my VM;s back up except for a few.

The VSCA took a very long time to logon using SSO with Active Directory.

I even restarted the appliance several times.

I even tried using the replia crated by Veeam no luck

But after about 1 hour it finally came up showing my DataCenter

All the ESXI hosts are showing not responding.

They are all up.

One thing I lost my Cisco 48 Port switch even when it was on a UPS sucks.  Just got a replacement Cisco switch and all my network connections are back.

All the hosts where powered back on and no network for over a day.

I can access all the esxi hosts from my browser individually

What can I do?

1. show I remove the esxi host from inventory?  Then add it back

2. install anew appliance   That is last resort I think.

Stuck here Please help

Just thought I would try step 1 and it is taken a very long time to remove it from inventory

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Devi94
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open ssh session to your vcsa, and run command

service-control --status

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Update,

It finally removed it from the inventory a Download patch definitions was going on at the same time and that failed also.

Then I tried to add the host back and it failed

Cannot contact the specified host my host.fqdn  The host may not be available on the network. a network configuration problem my exist or the management services on this host may not be responding.

Does this help ?

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Devi94
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Did you try pinging your hosts from VCSA ? nslookup working fine from VCSA ?

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That was it DNS on my one DC needed to be restarted after that all the hosts came alive.

B ut I am unable to access the appliance on port 5480 still and thoughts?

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Devi94
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restart your VCSA once.

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Vijay2027
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Run the below command and try accessing 5480 interface

/opt/vmware/sbin/vami-lighttpd -f /opt/vmware/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

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DEvi94

After a restart still unable to access

Any other ideas

could it be a service not running?  Which one and how to check?

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Vijay

Where do I run this command from?

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Devi94
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open ssh session to your vcsa, and run command

service-control --status

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Here it is

Command> service-control --status

Running:

applmgmt lwsmd pschealth vmafdd vmcad vmdird vmdnsd vmonapi vmware-cis-license vmware-cm vmware-content-library vmware-eam vmware-perfcharts vmware-psc-client vmware-rhttpproxy vmware-sca vmware-sps vmware-statsmonitor vmware-sts-idmd vmware-stsd vmware-updatemgr vmware-vapi-endpoint vmware-vmon vmware-vpostgres vmware-vpxd vmware-vpxd-svcs vmware-vsan-health vmware-vsm vsphere-client vsphere-ui

Stopped:

vmcam vmware-imagebuilder vmware-mbcs vmware-netdumper vmware-rbd-watchdog vmware-vcha

Command>

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Devi94
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Please share your error message when you are trying to access VAMI

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I got it

My shortcut on IE was pointing to my original appliance

https://tgcs-vcsa65.our.network.tgcsnet.com:5480

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https://tgcs-vc65.our.network.tgcsnet.com:5480

When you said get the message in IE I expanded the error and it said you have a DNS error that pointed me to the resolution

So all my started service are ok?

I do not need any of the stopped services?

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Devi94
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you are all set.

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