How to Restart VMware Management Service
To restart yourVMware management agents on ESX 3.5, vSphere, vSphere4, 5
Log in to your ESX Server through SSH or directly from the server console
Run the following command to restart VMware Management agent
#service mgmt-vmware restart.
VMware ESX Host Agent Watchdog [ OK ]
VMware ESX Host Agent [ OK ]
Starting VMware ESX Management services:
VMware ESX Host Agent (background) [ OK ]
Availability report startup (background) [ OK ]
Caution: Ensure Automatic Startup/Shutdown of virtual machines is disabled before running this command
To restart Virtual center agent
#service vmware-vpxa restart.
To Restart Web Access
#service vmware-webAccess restart
You can restart the Host Management agent for the following Symptoms:
- Cannot connect ESX to VirtualCenter
- Cannot connect ESX to vCenter Server
- Cannot connect directly to ESX Server from the VMware Infrastructure Client
- Cannot connect directly to the ESX Server from the vSphere Client
- You cannot stop or start a virtual machine
- A virtual machine is shown as running in VirtualCenter when it is not
- VirtualCenter shows the error:
- Virtual machine creation may fail because agent is unable to retrieve VM creation options from the host
- VMotion hangs at 10% complete