Greetings All,
Our MS Team moved our VirtualCenter server to a new IP Address. But since then i've had particular problems with a cluster i had previously set up.
Since the change, the cluster with 2 esx hosts cannot be destroyed, the esx hosts themselves cannot be dragged out, disconnected or slotted ito maintenace mode.
I suspect this is because the hosts are still sending heartbeats to the old VCenter IP Address . Any action to the cluster or hosts within just hangs.
Is there anyway, from the ESX Servers themselves to be removed from VCenter so i can re-added ?
Trying to readd the host in VC will prompt me that it's managed under a VCenter Server (old IP) and if you override you get an error "the host is already connected to this VirtualCenter server)
Any ideas/thoughts will be appreciated.
Have you tried to restart your Windows VC service?
The old IP is stored in the vpxa agent.
The easyst way ist to disconnect and reconnect your host.
Hmmm.... wish i could disconnect & reconnect.
Unfortunately disconnect / connect are grayed out on the hosts.
VC
|-> CLUSTER
|-> esxhost1
|-> esxhost2
####################
Cant disconnect/reconnect, cant destroy the cluster ... got myself into a right mess here i have
Have you tried to restart your Windows VC service?
Ronald,
- Connect to each ESX host using SSH.
- Edit one of the following files:
/etc/opt/vmware/vpxa/vpxa.cfg (ESX3.5)
/etc/vmware/vpxa.cfg (esx 3.0.x) (ESX3.0)
and change the vCenter server IP
- Restart vpxa
service vmware-vpxa restart
Let me know how it goes.
Pablo
don't know if you've seen this KB, but it should be useful.
Thanks all for the help.
Guess the whole thing was just overthought, restarting the VC Service made all the problems go away
Thanks!