Comments on: How To Fix Host Not Responding Error with VMware ESX, vSphere in vCenter

By: Sachin Shinde

Sachin Shinde — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 06:12:27 +0000

if you still facing such problem, no issues solution is there

Simply log in your VCenter Sevrver>

go to Services.msc>

find VMware VirtualCenter Server> Service would be stopped just go and start the service.

Thats it

now you should able to log in VSphere Client without any probelm thats for sure….

incase of any issues please tell me on sachin200682@gmail.com

By: Allen White

Allen White — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 13:54:32 +0000

all, we had this issue on esxi use the menu system to reset the mgmt services

http://www.techieshelp.com/esxi-host-disconnected-in-vcentre/

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 31 May 2011 18:41:42 +0000

No 3rd party agents are installed. Yes, it is a little strange to me too. I will look at the link, thanks.

By: Ray Heffer

Ray Heffer — Tue, 31 May 2011 18:18:58 +0000

That’s strange, do you have any third party agents installed? It doesn’t sound right so it might be worth contacting VMware support and sending them your logs. It might also be worth looking at this, but I don’t suggest re-installing the agents until you speak to support: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1003714

Ray

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 31 May 2011 17:48:34 +0000

It is the latest released version (ESX v4.1 Update 1.) Single Host experiencing the problem. The Host fails to start each time on reboot. Manually restarting the Host Agent “service mgmt-vmware restart” has worked everytime. Once restarted, it continues running just fine until next Host reboot.

By: Ray Heffer

Ray Heffer — Tue, 31 May 2011 13:05:51 +0000

Hello Bob. What version of ESX are you running and is it a single host or multiple hosts with this issue? This should certainly start with the host unless it fails each time, in which case sounds like an issue with your particular ESX host. If you can provide more details I can see if I can help you.

Ray

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 31 May 2011 11:32:29 +0000

Hello Ray, I just wanted to follow up and see if you had any ideas/suggestions about my problem above? Thanks again.

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 13 May 2011 10:51:56 +0000

I have the same problem described above. Manually restarting the mgmt-vmware service works fine however I am trying to troubleshoot why it is not starting when the host starts. I have rebooted the host numerous times and everything else seems fine except this service. I am very new to VMWare (and Linux) so am at a bit of a loss as to why this would not start with the host. I really appreciate any assistance you can provide and this post was a big help to at least get connectivity back to the VSphere client. I did a lot of research on this before stumbling accross this and your post was the only one I found that got me close to resolving the issue. Thank you very much.

By: Anahita

Anahita — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 13:17:49 +0000

Thanks again for all your repsonses. I have checked the site but again I will do it more accuratly and also inform you the results.

Kind regards,

By: Ray Heffer

Ray Heffer — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 12:59:36 +0000

It might be worth posting this on the VMware community forums, and include the logs. I think it’s unlikely to be a syntax error in one the system files unless they’ve been edited. Is this is live ESX server or just a test box?

The results of the grep vmware-hostd verify that hostd is not running. The result you see is the grep command.

Also, check that your ESX host hasn’t run out of disk space by using df -h.

Have you checked the steps in this KB: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1002849