I am getting this error when trying to connect to my vCenter Server, which is running on Windows Server 2008 SP2. "vSphere Client could not connect with the vCenter Server. Details: A connection failure occurred (Unable to connect to the remote server). I can ping the server. Telnet to port 443 gives "Could not open connection to the host, on port 443". Telnet to port 80 makes a connection, but trying the vCenter Server Web Access does not work (not sure if that is even set up by default).
The vSphere client log has the following error:
2009-07-20 11:06:35.781 Log for vSphere Client Launcher, pid=5936, version=4.0.0, build=build-162856, option=release
2009-07-20 11:06:49.078 Error retrieving clients.xml
System.Net.WebException: Unable to connect to the remote server
Server stack trace:
at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse()
Exception rethrown at :
at VpxClient.Login.ClientsXmlLoader.TryDownloadAllPorts(Exception& activeError)
at VpxClient.Login.ClientsXmlLoader.Download(Object obj)
System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 172.16.1.1:443
...
at System.Net.ServicePoint.ConnectSocketInternal(Boolean connectFailure, Socket s4, Socket s6, Socket& socket, IPAddress& address, ConnectSocketState state, IAsyncResult asyncResult, Int32 timeout, Exception& exception)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
The line that says "No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it" leads me to believe that the connection attempt is getting to the server but a configuration or something is not right. All of the appropriate firewall exceptions are in the windows firewall, and I've even tried turning it completely off.
Any ideas?
