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

Posted on 05.Feb 2010 by in Virtualisation, VMware

Virtualcenter looses connectivity to an ESX or vSphere host, and all of the virtual machines that are running on the host show as ‘disconnected’. You will also see that the host has ‘not responding’ in brackets next to it’s name.

This one is very simple to fix, as it is usually caused by the host agent service (mgmt-vmware) failing due to a dead process.

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