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Al_MILCORP
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‎02-14-2009 08:50 AM

Virtual Center Issues

I have tried but cannot find any definitive answers to this problem. My virtual center is working fine, I can do everything except use "Open Console" to connect to my VMs. I get the infamous "Cannot connect to host (ESX): No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it." As I said earlier HA, DRS, VMotion all works great but I can't view the VMs from "Open Console" any help will be greatly appreciated.

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Al_MILCORP
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‎02-16-2009 08:40 AM

deleted.

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geob
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‎02-16-2009 10:22 AM

Do you have IIS installed on the vCenter server? What port is the vCenter web server configured for? If IIS is installed, the vCneter web server must be configured for a port other than port 80.

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Al_MILCORP
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‎02-16-2009 01:34 PM

No IIS. If I had IIS installed, none of the other parts would be working. Thanks anyway.

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_David
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‎02-16-2009 03:12 PM

Put your ESX servers IP, long name and shortname in your VC servers HOSTS file.

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Neth66
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‎02-17-2009 05:13 AM

Where are the VC Server, Client, and ESX hosts in relation to each other? I don't remember the exact details, but in ESX 2.5 days we had a similar problem, and we'd be able to see the console if the client was on the same subnet as the VC Server.

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Al_MILCORP
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‎02-17-2009 07:05 AM

Each of my esx boxes has the IP, FQDN, and short name in the host file. Thx!

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_David
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‎02-17-2009 07:13 AM

ok but do you have it in your VC servers hosts file as well?

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Al_MILCORP
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‎02-17-2009 07:14 AM

The VC Server, Client and ESX host are all on the same subnet 10.1.X.X. I do have an isolated non-routable iSCSI to SANs with another service console 192.168.X.X.

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Al_MILCORP
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‎02-19-2009 07:52 AM

After careful research and testing I have found the problem. The issue stems from the MS ISA 2006 client. VMware console is Winsock based and all traffic of this type is intercepted by the firewall client which over wrote the local routing table. Just disabling the client is not enough, you have to remove it. Whew... mystery solved.

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