Hi,
Came into work this morning to find that one of my esx hosts is appearing as disconnected in Virtual Centre. And all the VM's connected to this host are also showing as disconnected. I can't log into the host using the VI Client, error is "vmware infrastructure client could not establish the initial connection with server "ip address" "Details: A connection failure occured"
I can Remote Desktop onto all the VM's showing as disconnected and they seem to be working fine.
I can also ping the esx host and it replies, and when I control the esx host remotely via rsa it appears as normal showing me the ip address.
I have another esx host in the cluster and this is working fine.
When I check the events on the host that isn't working there is an error showing at 5:30am this morning that says Host "hostname" in "Datacenter Name" is not responding.
I've tried restarting the Virtual Centre Service and the host showed up as connected for about 30 seconds then went to back to disconnected.
ESX Server 3.0.2, Virtual Center 2.5.0
Any ideas on how to resolve this would be greatly appreciated. I don't have in-depth knowledge on vmware so please go easy on me!!