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RajuVCP
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vCenter Search Option not working

Hi All,

I have VMware Vsphere Vcenter 4.0, initially when i need to find and VM in my VMinfra i just used to enter that VM's ip or VM's Name in Search option on the vCenter top, there i was easily able to get the machine location , its in which Host does that machine exists all , but suddenly some how from last 2 week the search option is not working Properly, i have not installed any update patches in vcenter, when i enter the system ip or name its keeps on showing message that searching , but no results shows,Does anybody faced the same kind of problem, if yes can anybody please provide me with the solution

Regards

Raju Gunnal

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scott28tt
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You might get some better suggestions in the main vSphere forums rather than here, but the first thing I'd be doing is restarting the VMware VirtualCenter Management Webservices service on the vCenter server system.

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Troy_Clavell
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a couple things to look at, but I would start with the second KB article

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1026092

we had the same issue in our enviornment and found the below fixed the problem

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1024493

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