{"id":3041,"date":"2014-01-30T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wiki.melberi.com\/uncategorized\/how-to-restart-vmware-management-service-in-vsphere-command-line"},"modified":"2017-10-24T10:01:38","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T10:01:38","slug":"restart-vmware-management-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melberi.com\/wiki\/vmware\/restart-vmware-management-service","title":{"rendered":"How to Restart VMware Management Service in Vsphere Command line"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How to Restart VMware Management Service<\/b><\/span><\/u><\/h2>\n

To restart yourVMware management agents on ESX 3.5, vSphere, vSphere4, 5
\nLog in to your ESX Server through SSH or directly from the server console
\nRun the following command to restart VMware Management agent<\/b>
\n#service mgmt-vmware restart.<\/b>
\nVMware ESX Host Agent Watchdog\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [\u00a0 OK\u00a0 ]<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\nVMware ESX Host Agent\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [\u00a0 OK\u00a0 ]
\nStarting VMware ESX Management services:
\nVMware ESX Host Agent (background)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [\u00a0 OK\u00a0 ]
\nAvailability report startup (background)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [\u00a0 OK\u00a0 ]<\/span>
\nCaution: <\/b>Ensure Automatic Startup\/Shutdown of virtual machines is disabled before running this command<\/span><\/span>
\nTo restart Virtual center agent<\/b>
\n#service vmware-vpxa restart.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span>
\nTo Restart Web Access<\/b>
\n#service vmware-webAccess restart<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

You can restart the Host Management agent for the following Symptoms:<\/u><\/h3>\n
    \n
  1. Cannot connect ESX to VirtualCenter <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Cannot connect ESX to vCenter Server<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Cannot connect directly to ESX Server from the VMware Infrastructure Client\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Cannot connect directly to the ESX Server from the vSphere Client<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  5. You cannot stop or start a virtual machine<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  6. A virtual machine is shown as running in VirtualCenter when it is not<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  7. VirtualCenter shows the error:<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  8. Virtual machine creation may fail because agent is unable to retrieve VM creation options from the host<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  9. VMotion hangs at 10% complete<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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