I had 2 hosts I was trying to add into VC. When I tried to add them, it said that it could not because not enough licenses.. I had forgot about that, so I activated the 2 licenses and generated a new lic file with all the correct number of licenses. At this point, both ESX hosts were listed in the cluster i wanted them in, but they were disconnected. I stopped VC service, and the license server service. I copied over the new lic file and started the license server. I then restarted the VC service. I logged in using VI client and told it to connect the first host. It connected the host fine. I then went to connect the second and I get a msg saying that the host is already being managed by the IP of the VC server. It asks if I want to continue and any previous connection to a VC will be lost. I say yes, and it tries to connect, but then says that it's already connected to the VC. It leaves it in disconnected status. I then try to connect and it prompts for a password, then bascially just comes back with the same error.
I've tried to say remove on the host, and readd it then, and it's the same thing. I even rebuilt the host.. and it still has same error. I think its somewhere in VC that it's hung.
If i remove it from the VC and look at the vpx hosts table, it does not show the host. but as soon as i try to add it, it says that it's already managed.
Anyone have an idea how I can get it to connect?
I've restarted the VC server many times also.
