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fabricesforzani
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Contributor

Vcenter appliance 5.1 add host

Hello i have the following stange behavior .

I have a vcenter in 192.168.1.105 with gtw 192,168.1.1
My vsphere 5.1 is in 88.190.48.48
i have a FW with lan addres 192.168.1.1
and wan address 88.191.242,38
on vcenter I add ip address of my host
All is ok but after 20 second the host display not responsding
so no access to console vms and settings but the vms are all working correctly
so I try to connect the host all is ok
but after same problem again
ma firewall pfsense is ok as I can connect my host and see the console of the vms
but still pbm after several seconds ....
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a_p_
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Leadership

Issues like this are usually due to non-working name resolution, i.e. the vCenter Server cannot resolve the host's DNS name and vice versa (see e.g. http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1003735).

André

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JCMorrissey
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Expert

Hi,

Take a look at the fixes outlined in

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/426326

similar setup to yourself there so hopefully will help

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