I have an ESX 3.5 U2 server that wont reconnect to Virtual Center.
It originally quit communicating with VC because of a blocked LUN reservation.
After restarting the system it still wont come back. I've tried every combination of things I could find in the forum.
I've deleted the vpxa users, restarted vmware-vpxa, vmware-mgmt, xinetd, and vmware-vmkauthd.
I've removed the host completely from VC, removed the vpxa user, and restarted the ESX server.
The login is successful and the import wizard allws me to see all of the VMs on the host but after registering it, it can't connect or import its VMs.
Error is:
Unable to contact the specified host (host). This might be because the host is not available on the network, there's a network configuration problem, or the management services on the host are not responding.
When I first enter password and try to connect:
Dec 5 16:06:47 pdxesx03 vmware-hostd[3743]: Accepted password for user vpxuser from 127.0.0.1
Dec 5 16:06:47 pdxesx03 xinetd[2114]: START: vmware-authd pid=7416 from=10.61.2.10
Dec 5 16:06:47 pdxesx03 vmware-hostd[3743]: Accepted password for user vpxuser from 127.0.0.1
Dec 5 16:06:54 pdxesx03 vmware-hostd[3743]: Accepted password for user root from 127.0.0.1
After hitting next:
Dec 5 16:08:05 pdxesx03 vmware-hostd[3743]: Accepted password for user root from 127.0.0.1
Dec 5 16:08:05 pdxesx03 passwd(pam_unix)[7444]: password changed for vpxuser
Dec 5 16:08:05 pdxesx03 vmware-authd(pam_unix)[3743]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost= user=root
Dec 5 16:08:08 pdxesx03 xinetd[2114]: START: vmware-authd pid=7446 from=10.61.2.10
Dec 5 16:08:08 pdxesx03 vmware-hostd[3743]: Accepted password for user vpxuser from 127.0.0.1
The pam files are configured identically to my other hosts.
# cat /etc/pam.d/vmware-authd
#%PAM-1.0
auth required pam_stack.so service=system-auth
account required pam_stack.so service=system-auth
# cat /etc/pam.d/system-auth
#%PAM-1.0
Autogenerated by esxcfg-auth
account required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so
auth required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_env.so
auth sufficient /lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so likeauth nullok
auth required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_deny.so
password required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_passwdqc.so min=disabled,24,12,8,7 similar=deny match=4
password sufficient /lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so nullok use_authtok md5 shadow
password required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_deny.so
session required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_limits.so
session required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so
Any ideas?
