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Re-add Hosts to vmware Cluster FAILS

Hi all,

Sorry...I posted this originally under ESXi4, which is not correct.

Ok....for whatever reason today all hell broke loose on my VMWare Cluster.

vCenter 5.1

3 Hosts connected, at least they were on Friday (HP Gen8 DL380p, 2 x Xeon, 128Gb Mem)

Today I come in and low and behold, two of three hosts are no longer connected.

Follow a few KB articles. One says to log in locally to Host,

remove vpxuser:Done.

Restart MGMT agents:Done

Re add host back into venter.

Fail fail fail.

Error is: Failed to configure the VIM account on host.

Submit Error Report link on same error popup takes me to the KB 2004667, which tells me to do exactly what I just did. This still fails.

Cannot "putty" in..."Server unexpectedly closed network connection" I assume this is because there is no longer a vpxuser account????

I have VM's running on this host that I CANNOT......lets reiterate....that I CANNOT SHUT DOWN.

We run 24/7/365 and I do not have the luxury of stopping and starting VM's at will. I cannot reboot this Host...unless I can vmotion these VM's off, which is not an option because of these 2 Hosts NOT being in the cluster anymore.

Going back into the console to look at logs. pressing numeric keys for log files....does nothing, screen flashes thats about it.

So I am hooped.

On the second host, I have not yet removed the vpxuser account, so when I try an add this Host back into the Cluster I get this error: (Image attached)

But this still has the VIM account issue.

Why or how can this happen??

Any assistance would be grateful.

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