vCenter Agent will not start- ESXi 4

[marty9876]

Hello all,

New install of ESXi 4 on a Dell 2850. Trying to get VMware Infrastructure to connect to the ESXi 4 server and no luck. Looking at the configuration of running services on the ESXi 4 server, in security profiles, the VMware vCenter Agent service is not running. Try to start the service and get an error of "Error during the configuration of the host:" . Tried rebooting the ESXi server, no luck. Have a VM installed on it, seems to be working otherwise.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Marty

[AndreTheGiant]

The agent is enable by vCenter Server.

Have you tried to add your ESXi to VC?

Andre

[marty9876]

When I add to vCenter I get an error "The hose type is not supported, or was added to a cluster but does not support clustering features". The host says disconencted. I thought this was from the service not running on the ESXi box, maybe not.

Orginal issue is I'm not able to add the box to vCenter near as I can tell, unless I'm doing something wrong.

[AndreTheGiant]

Are you using a VC 4?

Do not add under a VMware Cluster, just add into your datacenter.

Andre

[marty9876]

Using VC4, I think...

Tried:

No luck. I make a datacenter, try adding a host and it communicated witht the ESXi box (user name/password ok) get to the part where it says connecting in the recent task section then errors out a few seconds later with the "the host type is not supported...". Using Vmware Infrastructure Client 2.5.0 and VMware VirtualCenter 2.5.0

[AndreTheGiant · Accepted solution]

Using Vmware Infrastructure Client 2.5.0 and VMware VirtualCenter 2.5.0

So you are you using VC 2.5 and OLD client.

You need NEW VC and the NEW vSphere Client.

Andre

[marty9876]

That was it, thanks. Not sure how I ended up with an older version. Now, if I cna just get vCenter to run on a single core celeron....