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Thursday, June 16, 2011

Steps to fix disonnected VM's


One or more VMs  are shown as disconnect in vCenter.

Cause:
This is usually caused by the mgmt-vmware service not working correctly, but could be other issues as well.

Solutions:

Method 1 – usually works and is the quickest.
1)      Identify the ESX host that the VMs/Templates reside on
2)      Restart the mgmt-vmware
service mgmt-vmware restart

Method 2
1)      Restart vCenter Service and/or server.

Method 3
1)      Identify the ESX host that the VMs/Templates reside on
2)      Disconnect ESX host from vCenter
3)      Reconnect ESX host from vCenter

Method 4 – More safe, but takes a bit longer
1)      Identify the ESX host that the VMs/Templates reside on
2)      Place ESX host in maintenance mode
3)      Disconnect ESX host from vCenter
4)      Reconnect ESX host from vCenter
5)      Exit maintenance mode

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