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BBinfra
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‎11-14-2011 02:51 AM

vMA and management connectivity

Hi,

I have set up vMA v5.0 and it has network connectivity, i can also manage my ESXi 5 hosts using it. The problem i have is... i need to install PowerPath on my ESXi hosts and it seems i should be using the vMA to do so (I cant use remote CLi).

I cannot PuTTY or use WinSCP to connect to the vMA - i need to transfer the .zip file to the vMA to then do the remote install onto the hosts. While troubleshooting this i also noticed the web interface to the vMA also doesnt work. With PuTTY, WinSCP and HTTPS it always says permission denied/authenication failed! How can this be? The only user you set up is vi-admin and this is the one i logon locally with so i know its right.

I have followed the article here to but it doesnt seem to help me! I have also re-deployed the .OVF incase i had miseed configured it the first time!

Help!

David.

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BBinfra
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‎11-14-2011 02:53 AM

Sorry i missed the link http://jreypo.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/vma-5-rejects-ssh-connections/

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vmhyperv
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‎11-14-2011 11:15 AM

Hi,

Did you checked that correct IP address assigned and no duplicate IP address assigned because it happened with me then finally after sturglling i called vmware vendor and they found that vMA is sitting with duplicate IP address.

thanks

vmguy

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BBinfra
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‎11-15-2011 12:10 AM

Thanks for replying. I am sure its correctly addressed - can ping it, i can also PuTTY/WinSCP to it but fail the authenication. Same goes when connecting to https://ipadress:port - I get the login page but it doesnt accept the vi-admin account details but as i say i can log into the VM with those credentails.

Cheers

David.

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