hi all,
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Environment: 1 Cluster
Hosts: 8x ESX4.1U2
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I have a bit of issue with one of our hosts. vCentre is seeing the host as disconnected even though the VMs are running okay.
I cannot use vSphere CLient to get into the host directly. However I have a SSH session.
[root@HOST ~]# rpm -V VMware-vpxa
S.5....T c /etc/opt/vmware/vpxa/vpxa.cfg
[root@HOST ~]# service vmware-vpxa restart
Stopping vmware-vpxa: [FAILED]
Starting vmware-vpxa: [ OK ]
[root@HOST ~]# ps -ef | grep vpxa
root 12347 1 0 2012 ? 01:31:12 [vpxa] <defunct>
root 21452 1 0 13:58 ? 00:00:00 /opt/vmware/vpxa/vpx/vpxa
root 24574 1 0 14:45 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh /opt/vmware/vpxa/bin/vmware-watchdog -s vpxa -u 30 -q 5 /opt/vmware/vpxa/sbin/vpxa
root 24580 24574 0 14:45 ? 00:00:00 /opt/vmware/vpxa/vpx/vpxa
root 24890 20800 0 14:51 pts/1 00:00:00 grep vpxa
If I try to kill - 9 12347 nothing happens.
mgmt-agents seem to be okay
[root@HOST ~]# ps -ef | grep hostd | grep -v grep
root 2971 5021 0 2012 ? 00:00:00 /usr/libexec/hostd/nssquery
root 4929 1 0 2012 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/vmware-watchdog -s hostd -u 60 -q 5 -c /usr/sbin/vmware-hostd-support /usr/s
root 5021 4929 1 2012 ? 16:28:14 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-hostd /etc/vmware/hostd/config.xml -u
What can I do???
Help is appreciated