How do we restart the vsphere center server installed on host after reboot of host

[Diamrusa]

Something went wrong and we are unable to access all of our servers including the vcenter server which was also on on of the hosts. Can someone support?

We are using ESXi 5.1.0 with Vsphere client on 2 hosts.

I tried to access the hosts using their respective IPs but no option available to do it from the web browser.

Another way I tried to connect the vga\keyboard to access directly to the host, and restart the agents but to no avail.

[IRIX201110141]

If the host is in a healthy state you can

- Directly connect with the C# Windows vSphere Client 5.1 to the Host

- Connect through ssh or on the ESXi Console

vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms
vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms | grep -i  "YourVMname or something from the VM notes"
vim-cmd vmsvc/power.on TheVmId

If the getallvms returns a timeout or something like "could not connect" than your host isnt healty.

Regards,

Joerg

[MikeStoica]

So you got access to DCUI and you were not able to restart the services?