While doing some testing with one of our vm’s today we tried to shutdown the vm after pxe booting in and it crashed the management client for the vmnode. I logged into putty and logged onto the machine and tried to restart the the management service but once it got to restarting the host agent service it just hung
Stopping VMware ESX Server Management services:
VMware ESX Server Host Agent Watchdog OK
VMware ESX Server Host Agent
I checked the status of the service after a few minutes to see if the service had stopped and it still showed as running
- service mgmt-VMware status
VMware-hostd (pid 2916) is running...
So i searched around and found someone had posted a very nifty solution on the VMware communities. So i tried out his solution of searching for the process
ps -ef | grep vmware-hostd
Then killing the process once you know the id for it
kill -9 <PID> (e.g. kill -9 3545)
Then all i needed to do was restart the service and it all came back and the machine had also shutdown.
Gregg Robertson
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