How to edit vpxa.cfg for ESXi 5

[Zade]

Hi Guys,

I'm doing a test run on a migration of vCenter, I have managed to move the DSN and the VIM database fine, vCenter is installed and has picked up the ESXi hosts, I cannot see my virtual machines though. I believe that my ESXi's may still be pointing to the old vCenter IP address.

I've downloaded Putty and have access the ESXi via the root user, I want to check the IP address of the host that the ESXi's are pointing to at etc/vmware/vpxa/vpxa.cfg but when i type this into putty I get the error "Permission denied"

Can anyone assist?

[tomtom901]

Did you post a command for it? In example: cat /etc/vmware/vpxa/vpxa.cfg

[vlho]

Hi Zade,

you use rather this tools: http://winscp.net

Switch on protocol SSH, connect, find file vpxa.cf, then F4...

[tomtom901]

Not every company has WinSCP, PuTTY is the most used tool so some basic skills with PuTTY / Linux are never a stupid idea.

[vlho]

Hi Tomtom,

yes but if Zade has no knowledge about Linux (especially with vi or nano editor) he will have big problem.

[Jvdp]

Why do you want to do it that way? Just connect to the ESXi host directly with the vSphere Client. If the host is managed by a vCenter instance, you will immediately be shown a popup. And on the 'Summary' tab, at the bottom, you will see a box called 'Host Management', showing that the host is currently be managed by vCenter with IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, so that makes it easy:

You can even disassociate the host from the vCenter if needed.

[Zade]

Thank you everyone for the advice, I have logged into my vsphere client,

• Expanded My datacenter
• Expanded My Cluster
• Selected my ESXi host, clicked on the summary tab, but I cannot see a host management section

If possible could you provide me with step by step instructions on locating this in vsphere?

[Jvdp · Accepted solution]

You need to connect with the client to the ESXi host directly and log in with the root credentials, not to the vCenter instance. 😉

[Zade]

Got it, thanks everyone!

All setup