Hi,
I have a problem with starting my server with esx server, there some errors of services
vmware host agent failed
and
ntpd: synchronizing with time server failed
I have trying to restart this services in troubleshooting mode with this command:
/etc/init.d/ntpd restart
/etc/init.d/hostd restart
but vspher does not connect to the server Esx 4.1 .
please help me because i have verry important data to recover .
thank's
Hi,
I have retart ntpd services but the same error.
Did that happen while the ESXi host was running or does this happen when you boot the host ?
NTP not working as a problem but one that can be handled later. Just make sure date/time is correct before you try to power on VMs.
HOSTD not working is a real problem; without HOSTD you can't manage the ESXi host.
I've seen it happen that ESXi management agents crash and a restart doesn't work. But you can at least try to restart them. See here VMware Knowledge Base
If that doesn't work you may have to restart the ESXi host. The last time this happened to me (management agent crashed; restarting agents doesn't work; some VMs are still running) I connected via RDP etc to VMs that were still running/accessible and shut them down. Shutting down ESXi host was no longer possible so I did a hard power off / power on sequence.
If it is an ESX host and not ESXi you will need below KB to restart hostd.
And if it does not
when i try to boot the system some services for vmware does not work like "hostd and ntpd" , i have not access to esx 4.1 through the vsphere client so i don't have access to my virtual machines. so i can't change the date
I have restart hostd and vpxa byt the same error appear. i have some problems to execute some command like:
esxcli network ip interface set -e false -i vmk0; esxcli network ip interface set -e true -i vmk0
and how to to determine if NSX is installed on my the ESX host (esx-vsip,esx-vxlan).
thank's for your answers
hy i can't execute yhis command to recover PID
# ls -l vmware-hostd.PID watchdog-hostd.PID
it say that it's not a command or file directory
If you don't know whether you have NSX then you don't have it. It doesn't work with ESXi 4.1 anyway.
If hostd isn't running then vSphere Client can't connect.
So I understand this happens when booting the ESXi host and not after it's running for some time - that's bad. I haven't seen that happen (I've had broken SD cards/USB keys that needed to be replaced and a ESXi reinstall but here usually ESXi boot already failed)
Maybe there's a clue in the log files:
Reinstalling the ESXi host may be an option to consider.
I haven't solve the problem for hostd service in ESX 4.1,
Now i want to connect a extern disk to ESX and copy the vm file (vmdk) to this disk by command powerShell
I try this commands but i don't find the file in the disk after the copy:
fdisk -l
sudo mkdir /tmp/cle
sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /tmp/cle
cp nom de la vm.vmdk /tmp/cle
can you help me please?