Hi,
I have 3 ESX servers ( version 3.5.0,82663) with Vcenter (version 2.5 update 1, 84782).
For maintenance reasons, I had to shutdown the systems the week-end. I put the 3 ESX server into maintenance mode et perform a shutdown.
This morning I restart the servers but the VCenter see only 2 esx servers and the third one is not responding.
After a little search on Google, I reallize that the "hostd" process was not running.
I try to restart if with "/etc/rc.d/init/mgmt-vmware start" but hostd is still not running.
Here are the output of /var/log/messages when trying to start the hostd:
Jul 7 08:28:47 vm3 watchdog-hostd: PID file /var/run/vmware/watchdog-hostd.PID not found
Jul 7 08:28:47 vm3 watchdog-hostd: Begin '/usr/sbin/vmware-hostd -u', min-uptime = 60, max-quick-failures = 5, max-total-failures = 1000000
Jul 7 08:28:47 vm3 watchdog-hostd: Executing '/usr/sbin/vmware-hostd -u'
Jul 7 08:28:47 vm3 VMware[init]: Begin '/usr/sbin/vmware-hostd -u', min-uptime = 60, max-quick-failures = 5, max-total-failures = 1000000
Jul 7 08:28:47 vm3 watchdog-hostd: '/usr/sbin/vmware-hostd -u' exited after 0 seconds (quick failure 1)
Jul 7 08:28:47 vm3 watchdog-hostd: Executing cleanup command '/usr/sbin/vmware-hostd-support'
Jul 7 08:28:48 vm3 watchdog-hostd: Executing '/usr/sbin/vmware-hostd -u'
Jul 7 08:28:48 vm3 watchdog-hostd: '/usr/sbin/vmware-hostd -u' exited after 0 seconds (quick failure 2)
Jul 7 08:28:48 vm3 watchdog-hostd: Executing cleanup command '/usr/sbin/vmware-hostd-support'
Jul 7 08:28:48 vm3 watchdog-hostd: Executing '/usr/sbin/vmware-hostd -u'
Jul 7 08:28:48 vm3 watchdog-hostd: '/usr/sbin/vmware-hostd -u' exited after 0 seconds (quick failure 3)
Jul 7 08:28:48 vm3 watchdog-hostd: Executing cleanup command '/usr/sbin/vmware-hostd-support'
Jul 7 08:28:48 vm3 watchdog-hostd: Executing '/usr/sbin/vmware-hostd -u'
Jul 7 08:28:48 vm3 watchdog-hostd: '/usr/sbin/vmware-hostd -u' exited after 0 seconds (quick failure 4)
Jul 7 08:28:48 vm3 watchdog-hostd: Executing cleanup command '/usr/sbin/vmware-hostd-support'
Jul 7 08:28:48 vm3 watchdog-hostd: Executing '/usr/sbin/vmware-hostd -u'
Jul 7 08:28:49 vm3 watchdog-hostd: '/usr/sbin/vmware-hostd -u' exited after 1 seconds (quick failure 5)
Jul 7 08:28:49 vm3 watchdog-hostd: Executing cleanup command '/usr/sbin/vmware-hostd-support'
Jul 7 08:28:49 vm3 watchdog-hostd: Executing '/usr/sbin/vmware-hostd -u'
Jul 7 08:28:49 vm3 watchdog-hostd: '/usr/sbin/vmware-hostd -u' exited after 0 seconds (quick failure 6)
Jul 7 08:28:49 vm3 watchdog-hostd: Executing cleanup command '/usr/sbin/vmware-hostd-support'
Jul 7 08:28:49 vm3 watchdog-hostd: End '/usr/sbin/vmware-hostd -u', failure limit reached
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END /var/log/messages
Can anyone help me and explain what is problem ?
As I new to ESX can someone tell me where I can get more information about "internal" process like the hostd for example.
Regards