topic Re: ESX-Host not responding to VC in VMware vSphere™ Discussions

ESX-Host not responding to VC

DannyBu — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 08:52:09 GMT

Hi guys,

we had some issues, restarting and migrating vm's on one esx-host. So I tried starting the management agents, like described in KB1003490 (VMware Knowledge Base ).

/etc/init.d/hostd restart seemed to work fine, but with

/etc/init.d/vpxa restart I got following output (after a long time):

watchdog-vpxa: Terminating watchdog process with PID 35024

vpxa stopped.

So I thought the vpxa ist not running and tried to start with "/etc/init.d/vpxa start" , but esx says, that the service is running.

I tried to repeat the procedure, but the vpxa-restart hangs with following output:

/etc/init.d/vpxa restart

watchdog-vpxa: PID file /var/run/vmware/watchdog-vpxa.PID does not exist

watchdog-vpxa: Unable to terminate watchdog: No running watchdog process for vpxa

vpxa stopped.

It would be fine, if there would be a solution, without downtime, because there are still VMs running.

Re: ESX-Host not responding to VC

vXav — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 13:57:06 GMT

Have you tried this KB?

Re: ESX-Host not responding to VC

aleex42 — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 16:59:29 GMT

You could stop all mgmt agents and then restart them again:

services.sh stop

services.sh start

No VM downtime - only temporary disconnect from vCenter or vSphere Client.

Re: ESX-Host not responding to VC

DannyBu — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 09:18:35 GMT

Thank you for your replys.

We restarted the mgmt-services via iLo (I assume this does the same as services.sh start/stop). This took about 20 minutes, but worked. Now after migrating the VMs to another host and reboot of the host, everything seems to work fine again.

Re: ESX-Host not responding to VC

aleex42 — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 16:57:33 GMT

Yes, thats the same