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DanLevin
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Templates are shown as disconnected in vCenter

All but one of our templates have a status of disconnected. All the ESX hosts are connected. When I right-click on the templates, the only options available are Add Permission, Scan for Updates, and Remediate. All other options are grayed out. How can I gain access to my templates?

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Cameron2007
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browse to the datastores and right click on the vmtx file. Add to Inventory and the templates should appear

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jbsengineer
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Do you store your templates on a vmfs volume which has become disconnected from your ESX servers?

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khughes
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I find this happening every now and then in my setup. I just remove them from the inventory, then browse the datastore that houses the templastes, right click on the .vmtx and add to inventory.

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DanLevin
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I do not have an option to remove the templates from inventory. It's odd; I could add two templates to inventory by browsing to the datastore without removing from inventory first, but five others I cannot do anything with.

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DanLevin
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We store the templates on a vmfs. It is the same location as our VMs but the VMs are not disconnected, only some of the templates are disconnected.

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Aladen
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On the esx server where the templates were last registered. run "service vmware-vpxa restart"

That will get them to re-register. (note, you will see all vms on that esrver disconnect then reconnect, dont be too scared) Just about any time you get an error with things being disconnected, etc, doing that usually fixes it. I have considered just doing it proactivly once a week on all servers.

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