We saw this on 3.5 U1 - since we updated to U2 we haven't seen this issue. VPXA was the problem in our case as well. -Brian
________________________________ From: James Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 6:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Virtual Center query Bingo! VPXA appears to be the issue. Thanks very much guys 2008/10/3 NTSysAdmin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Try: 1. Log in to the ESX Server service console as root. 2. Type service vmware-vpxa stop and press Enter. 3. Type /opt/vmware/vpxa/vpx/init_vpxa.sh and press Enter S From: James Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 8:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Virtual Center query ESX 3.5. Tried service mgmt-vmware restart and made no difference. 2008/10/3 NTSysAdmin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> What version of ESX.. Quick fix is to restart the management service on the esx server. S From: James Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 6:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Virtual Center query Does anybody have any idea why sometimes some of my ESX servers show as not responding in VirtualCenter, and the guests running on it show as disconnected? The guests themselves are still up and running fine, but they won't respond to VirtualCenter commands (all the options are greyed out). The only way to get around this seems to be shut down all the guests on the affected server, and then restart the ESX server - not really an option when my Exchange, Excalibur and SQL servers are running on this particular ESX box. If ESX was Windows, I guess I'd be looking for a failed service or something, but being a bit of a Unix/ESX amateur I'm not sure where to start troubleshooting.... TIA, JRR ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
