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sivaksk147
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‎12-13-2012 03:19 AM

ESXi.5.1 root permissions

Hi Techies,

i have an issue with root account in ESXi 5.1 hypervisor, my ESXI host not able to join to the vCenter server, so i thought to uninstall VPX agent from ESXI by navigating to the /opt/vmware/      but i am unable to do, it says permission denied. even services also i am unable to restart. can some one help me on solving the problem.

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TomHowarth
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‎12-13-2012 03:40 AM

what exactly are you trying to do??? the ESXi environment is essentially a black box environment.

what error messages are you getting when the ESX box fails to join? have you upgraded your vCenter to version 5.1?

Tom Howarth VCP / VCAP / vExpert
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LucD
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‎12-13-2012 03:47 AM

Moved to the ESXi community for better visibility


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a_p_
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‎12-13-2012 04:04 AM

Do you have "Lockdown Mode" enabled for the host? In this case take a look at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1008077. The KB article does not mention version 5.1, so you may need to see whether this still applies (I didn't try this myself yet).

André

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