Can no longer add ESXi host to vCenter but OK VI Client connects

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• Cannot add ESXi host to vCenter Server

  Hello

  I created a home set up a VMware datacenter for study purposes. I currently have 2 virtual machines: an ESXi host with vCenter Server Appliance deployed on this subject.

  I configured the server vCenter through web interface device and I have connected using vSphere Client.

  I created a data center, but when I try to add a host, I get "ERROR: the request exceeded."
  Connection with vSphere client directly to the ESXi host works.

  I can connect using SSH to the ESXi host.

  I have disabled the firewall on the ESXi host.

  I have read many articles on the kbase but nothing helped me to solve this problem.

  You have any ideas?

  I finally got to understand.

  It seems like my vmware workstation is not connected to the esxi as a physical host in my local network host, and so I was able to ping it unit of vCenter Server (but it worked the other way around, and that's why I thought it was ok).

  After the connection to the physical LAN of VMware workstation settings, everything worked fine.

• Add esxi host to vCenter fails

  Hello world

  I recently installed vCenter Server. I added the first host by the name of full domain with no problems at all. I tried to add the second host and he stopped the vCenter service and I have my client I disconnected.  When I restart the service and connect through the client, the host is as disconnected displaying 7 VM 12 of offline as well. All virtual machines and on the first host are always connected without any alarm.

  This server was connected to another server vCenter, more than a month and deleted successfully, I can add. I tried to unplug and reconnect several times, restart management agents and manually uninstall the vCenter agent using the console "unsupported."

  One thing I noticed, is that it gets to 8 or 9 percent, and that's when the vCenter service is stopped. I opened a second client to watch where it stops and it is just after "Select the virtual NETWORK adapter" full show then nothing.

  Any help would be much appreciated!

  Thank you

  Ahh. There is your situation.

  Stop the virtual machine. Click on remove inventory.

  Go to your other ESXi host. Browse the data store, find the folder of the virtual machine, right-click on the VM.vmx file and add to the inventory.

  It works and're you good to go.

  Conversely when you need your choice.

• vCenter crashes when you add esxi hosts

  When I add an esxi host to vcenter, it crashes when it comes to installing the agent vcenter at the bottom of the screen. Then my vi client will expire and say he lost the connection. What of weird is that my vcenter is just a virtual machine sitting inside the physical esxi server, I am trying to add. My connection is both high speed broadband as well. I don't understand not for vcenter IN the esxi server, I try to add, you would think that the connection should be fairly quick. My vcenter vm using windows xp pro 32-bit.

  When you run the add in vCenter you are connected to the local ESX and vCenter through the vSphere client?  I don't think that cause this problem, but if you are connected to two, during the add, delete the vSphere client connection in the ESX and try to add it again.  In addition, if you publish newspapers at the time of failure:

  ESX

  / var/log/vmkwarning

  / var/log/VMkernel

  var

  vCenter

  Journal of vpxd

  Is this the only ESX add that causes the problem?  You can VMotion the vCenter to another ESX Server and try to add the ESX problem?

• Adding esxi host to vcenter

  Hello

  I can't add a 5.1 ESXi host to VCenter server (5.1). When I try to add the host to vcenter, I get an error message "a general system error occurred, VMODL incompatibility between VC and ESXi."

  Need help.

  Usually this error appears when the ESXi host, you're trying to add has a newer version than vCenter.  Depending on your case, both have same version. In fact, it should work fine without any problem.

  Can you please confirm the ESXi and vCenter versions? Also can you please post numbers comes together?

• Unable to add previous hosts to vCenter device

  Greetings.  We are migrating our guests to new hardware.  We had three hosts for running ESXi 5.5.0 - 1331820 with the vCenter device on one of them.  Everything worked well.  In the process of moving virtual machines around, vCenter device has been deleted (intentionally).  We recreated the device of the OVA 5.5.0.5201 vCenter and ran through the Installation Wizard as previously.

  Now, when you add one of the existing hosts to vCenter, it finds the host and displays information.  When the user clicks on finish, it works quickly up to 80% and the host appears, and then disconnects.  The log shows: add host independent, added host, unable to connect host computer in the data center; connection error host, removed in the data center.

  The error showing is: cannot communicate with the specified host (x.x.x.x). The host may not be available on the network, may have a network configuration problem, or that the management on this host services may not respond.

  
  

  Now the stupid thing is that we can not even add the host on which the vCenter unit is on.  In addition, all hosts and vCenter unit are on the same network of management.  There is no firewall doesn't block all ports.  I read through a lot of the display of the Knowledge Base, and most is in regards to incorrect IP addresses or ports blocked or similar.  I checked through everything and could not find anything wrong.

  
  

  Last thing is that we amazed the ESXi host that had the vCenter device on it and re-installed 5.5.0 - 1623387 ESXi (version a little more recent than before) and reinstalled the that vCenter device exactly as before.  Now we can add that the host but still cannot add other hosts.  So it appears the issue is something with the hosts and not the device vCenter. 

  
  

  Anyone have any ideas?
  

  I run in to the same kind of problems with other factors.

  FWIW, have you tried the following in this order? 1 stop the vpxa on host, 2 service. Stop the service vmware-vpxd on the vcenter server, 3. Start the vmware-vpxd on the vcenter server, 4 service. Start the serivce vpxa on the host. Then try to add.

• Manage an ESXi host using vCenter Server?

  I understand it is possible and requires of the specific licenses for ESXi hosts, even if I find information on the VMWare site a bit confused as to what I need exactly. We have-

  1 License Server Standard 4 x vCenter

  4 x vSphere Enterprise license 4 (who manage our ESX 4 hosts this site)

  3 (and soon 4) remote sites that have the same server ESXi

  I would like to be able to manage ESXi host using vCenter as well, is this possible with what we have? If this isn't the case, can someone direct me as to what it takes?

  Thank you

  You need the standard by CPU socket for each host license to add to vCenter.

  You can always create a separate environment and get the Essentials Bundle (up to 3 guests max) for $500:

  http://store.VMware.com/servlet/ControllerServlet?Action=displayPage&env=base&locale=en_US&siteid=VMware&ID=ProductDetailsPage&ProductID=126843700&RESID=psfyPAoBAlkAACQ2y-kAAAAX&rests=1277824287882

  So you should have 2 vCenter servers.

  -MattG

  If you find this information useful, please give points to "correct" or "useful".

• I can no longer add items to my calendar

  Two days ago I did something and now I can no longer add to my calendar.

  Don't you have the sign '+' in the upper right corner?

• How to communicate esxi hosts to vcenter

  Hi team,

  I just want to know how vcenter to communicate to esxi hosts?

  (a) the name of the officer responsible for the communication between the host esxi and vcenter

  Thank you

  Vinayak

  Hello vinayakshvinayaksh

  Talks of vCenter for esxi host using the VPXD that runs inside the vcenter server and also service vpxa on esxi host that acts as an intermediary service to take the request of vpxd and passing demand to pass that runs on the host esxi ultimately his spend making tasks (like turn a virtual computer to migrate a virtual machine and so on). vinayaksh How to communicate esxi hosts to vcenter

  Kindly mark it as useful or correct answer if that answers your query.

  Rgds

  Frédéric

• Remove host to vCenter, but keep the functional VMs on host?

  I managed on the basis of 3 guests by vCenter Essentials over which limit myself to 3 hosts managed by vCenter.  3 all hosts are connected to storage arrays, SAN, through Dell Power Connect switches.

  I want to delete a host to add a beefier host in his place.  If I remove a host, it will break the connections to the San?... because I want to leave the host VMs powerd on & keep functional.  Is this possible?  Would this work?

  Remove a host to vCenter will not affect SAN connections or virtual machines running - depending on whether you have any DRS you might be forced to put the host in maintenance mode and move virtual machines to other nodes or if you have active HA you can find in a State where you receive warnings about insufficient resources for failover.

  What verion of vSphere use you to place this thread in the approriate forum =

• Cannot add 6.0 ESXi host to vCenter 6.0

  Hi guys,.
  I'm having a problem where I can not add any ESXi 6.0 host to vCenter 6.0. I can add an ESXi 5.5 without problem.

  I have the error that I get in the vpxd log is:

  2015 06-18 T 16: 36:37.312 + 01:00 info vpxd [03624] [sub Originator@6876 vpxLro = 120602 ca opID =] [VpxLRO] - tache-interne-69093--datacenter-26--vim BEGIN. Datacenter.queryConnectionInfo--524f7656-a68d-ef60-05e7-f24ec8a5f1b5(52359e42-f098-7b77-bc82-0cff38aa6ff9)

  2015 06-18 T 16: 36:37.314 + 01:00 vpxd error [04352] [Originator@6876 = 000001-HttpConnectionPool sub] [ConnectComplete] connection failed for < cs p:0000000008c8bfb0, TCP:192.168.0.12:443 >; CNX: (null), error: class Vmacore::Ssl:SSLException(SSL_Exception:_error:140000DB:SSL_routines:SSL_routines:short_read)

  2015 06-18 T 16: 36:37.314 + 01:00 vpxd error [03624] [sub Originator@6876 = opID httpUtil 120602 ca =] [HttpUtil::ExecuteRequest] error in sending request - SSL Exception: error: 140000DB:SSL routines: SSL routines: short read

  I can ping and resolve all ESXi host and checked the SSL certs and they look good too.

  Any help would be appreciated

  Dougie cordially

  Found the problem as vCenter 6.0 version I was running. I was running an older version of the VC and the current version of ESXi.
  Downloaded the current version and reinstalled and all good.

  Dougie

• VCenter 5.5 U1 can handle 5.0 ESXi hosts?

  According to VMware interoperability Guide, resembles vCenter 5.5 U1 can handle single host 5.5U1.

  It is a major problem for me. I just opened a folder with VMware, but can anyone confirm this?

  Thank you

  It seems that the matrix has been updated today and shows the compatibility for ESXi 4.0 or newer for vCenter Server 5.5 Update 1. What is important about vSAN, is that ESXi hosts have run the version 5.5 Update 1. The vSAN included in the GA 5.5 version was beta.

  André

• Add a 5.1 ESXI host to vcenter server 5.0

  Hi all

  I just installed an esxi5.1 host and tried to add in vcenter server 5.0 without success.

  The error is:

  A general error occurred: Timed waits vpxa to start

  Is it possible to do? If not, is documented somewhere? I searched a lot and found nothing relevant.

  The installation was made using an iso file, the new facility, in a shared, storage warehouse that has been formatted.

  I don't want vcenter server 5.1 as the impact of my infrastructure is high.

  Thanks for the help!

  VMware product interoperability matrix got the update and you would need 5.1 vCenter to manage 5.1 ESXi hosts

• Cannot access ESXi host in Vcenter after moving to accommodate different subnet

  I moved a different host EXSi 5.5 on a new subnet at a physical site.  The host has been identified by IP not the DNS name.  After the start of Vcenter, I realized my mistake.  The host is always identified by the old IP so it appears as disconnected.  I was hoping I'd be able to simply change the identification of IP address, but have not been able to see how to do this.  I also tried to remove the host (this configuration has a data center and a host), but I can't do it.  I can't add the host (with the new IP address) I get an error message that the data store is identified with the original host.

  Is there an easy way to this?

  Welcome to the community - you need to remove the old entry in your inventory (using the command delete inventory) and then re-add the ESXi host FULL domain name.

  I also moved it to a more appropriate forum-

• Remove 5 ESXi host to vCenter 5

  I have a vCenter Server 5 I want to remove some stand-alone hosts in & add an another vCenter but these hosts option delete is grayed out.

  Other stand-alone hosts in this vCenter I can remove it.

  It is a new installation of vCenter and ESXi 5 Update 1 hosts.  The whole army are at the 721882 level.  I tried to put in maintenance mode, restart, unplug them, but delete is not always an option to select.

  Any help is appreciated.  Thank you.

  before attempting to remove the host from your vCenter database record, have you tried restarting your vCenter Server Service?