After a reboot, one ESXI host won't reconnect..

[rgouette]

What happened: I performed a CPU upgrade to my two ESXI hosts(5.5.0-1331)

Restarted one host, after upgrading..then the other several minuites later.

When they came back online, VCenter showed one host as disconnected.

If I right click & try to reconnect, I get:

The VMware vSphere 5 Essentials license for Host <IP ADDRESS of HOST> does not include vSphere vMotion. Upgrade the license.

We have Essentials, without VMotion

I tried restarting the agents via the console as root, but no help.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Rich

[a_p_]

Please check whether one of the host's VMkernel adapters has vMotion enabled, and disable it.

André

[rgouette]

looking in here, is that right?:

[a_p_ · Accepted solution]

It's in the host's Network Configuration, where you can find the VMkernel port groups and their settings.

André

[rgouette]

Just found the VMotion enabled setting on the VSwitch for host#1.

Was able to add the other host#2  to vcenter.

Thanks much for  the pointers.

Regards,

Rich