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How will restart management console from VMWARE ESX?

Whenever trying to connect from vmware console, agent is unable to retrieve VM creation options.

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Question added by Muhammad Anzar , DevOps/DevSecOps Architect , Confidential
Date Posted: 2015/04/13
Khaled Al Saadi
by Khaled Al Saadi , Senior Technical Engineer , Safir Support Services

Restarting the Management agents on ESXi

To restart the management agents on ESXi:

From the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI):

-Connect to the console of your ESXi host.

-Press F2 to customize the system.

-Log in as root.

-Use the Up/Down arrows to navigate to Restart Management Agents.

Note: In ESXi4.1 and ESXi5.0,5.1,5.5 and6.0 this option is available under Troubleshooting Options.

-Press Enter.

-Press F11 to restart the services.

-When the service has been restarted, press Enter.

-Press Esc to log out of the system.

From the Local Console or SSH:

-Log in to SSH or Local console as root.

-Run these commands:

/etc/init.d/hostd restart

/etc/init.d/vpxa restart

Hrvoje Stanilovic
by Hrvoje Stanilovic , Senior Technical Support Engineer , VMware

You can restart the management agents either through the DCUI interface or through the shell.

In DCUI, the option is under the Troubleshooting options. In shell, use the command:

services.sh restart

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