vSphere virtual center

[ANSA]

Has anyone been successful in adding ESX 2.5.x to vSphere 4 virtual center. I am trying to do this in order to upgrade the VMs using upgrade vmotion.

The first time the process stuck at 84% and failed. I tried twice aftger that and the process failed.

The first attempt was with the short name, the second time with the FQDN, and the third time with the IP address of the ESX host.

The error message received was:

a general system error occured: internal error: vmodl.fault.host-communication

Any suggestions would be apreciated.

[geddam]

Are you adding this host to a cluster which has other versions of ESX....Have you tried it adding at datacenter level...

Can you tell the exact version/build of this ESX?

Thanks,,

Ramesh. Geddam,

VCP 3&4, MCTS(Hyper-V), SNIA SCP.

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[ANSA]

Thanks for your response Ramesh.

There is no cluster involved. I am trying to add the host to the datacenter. I have already added there are three ESX 4 hosts to the virtual center in preparation for the vmotion upgrade. There was no problem with adding those.

The version ESX is 2.5.0 with build 11548

[Troy_Clavell]

see if this helps

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1010553

[geddam]

Yes, nice KB though. What do you see in hostd and vpxd log....?

Thanks,,

Ramesh. Geddam,

VCP 3&4, MCTS(Hyper-V), SNIA SCP.

Please award points, if helpful

[ANSA]

I think Troy may be on to something here. See attached. Don't know how to fix it though

[geddam]

[2010-04-16

12:57:14.355 03048 error 'App'] [VpxVmdbCnx] Authd error: Host address lookup

for server cacptoqqpvmhs001 failed: No such host is known

[2010-04-16

12:57:14.355 03048 error 'App'] [VpxVmdbCnx] Failed to connect to host

cacptoqqpvmhs001:902. Check that authd is running correctly (lib/connect error

2)

Looks like there is a access issue here.....what ports do you see under... /etc/xinetd.d/vmware-authd, are the ports mentioned are accessible from outside network (I mean from vCenter)....

Thanks,,                

Ramesh. Geddam,

VCP 3&4, MCTS(Hyper-V), SNIA SCP.   

*Please award points, if helpful*

[ANSA]

Port 902. Standard stuff. No problem for VC.

[ANSA]

If I try to telnet to the host through port 902 this is what I get

220 VMware Authentication Daemon Version 1.10: SSL Required