Any VMWare experts here? RE 6.5 issue

[Z064life]

Hi Guys,

I recently updated my ESXi 6 and VCenter 6 Server environment to 6.5 This worked fine, with me upgrading VCenter Server and VCenter PSC in the right order.

Later, I patched my ESXi server to 6.5. Now, with all my VMs turned reboot, if I go to VCenter Server and then web client, I see a spinning icon on the tree where all the datacenter objects display. I get an error "unable to connect to vcenter systems"

VMWare Support says this is a config issue with certs and ok this is a lab so certs aren't setup the ideal way but this did work fine before the upgrade?

Everything in the network is working, DNS, no firewall rules blocking traffic, etc.

[colin79666]

Odd, nothing changed cipher support wise between 6.0 and 6.5 I don't think. Have you checked that DNS is all working as it should?

[Sheets Tabuer]

unregister and re register esxi hosts

Use the vcenter automated ssl tool to replace the certificates.

install a new vcenter.

What does the logs say?

I have man flu I may not reply..

[Z064life]

colin79666 said:

Odd, nothing changed cipher support wise between 6.0 and 6.5 I don't think. Have you checked that DNS is all working as it should?

Yeah DNS definately works, everything can resolve each other.

[Z064life]

Ok so the error says an error connecting to this page - :


When I go to that page, I get this:

503 Service Unavailable (Failed to connect to endpoint: [class Vmacore::Http::LocalServiceSpec:0x0000008556120b80] _serverNamespace = /sdk action = Allow _port = 8085)

I'm trying everything, restarted services, etc. Any ideas?
I use the Windows server version of VCenter.

[Sheets Tabuer]

Check services are ok, (service-control --status --all)

Check service accounts or services are allowed to log on as a batch job.

[Z064life]

Sheets Tabuer said:

Check services are ok, (service-control --status --all)

Check service accounts or services are allowed to log on as a batch job.

Did that, and on the second point, yep they are. I had to do that for the initial VCenter Server 6.0 install.

Anyway, I installed VCenter 6.5 on another server, probably much quicker than troubleshooting!

Edited by Z064life on Monday 27th February 21:30

[Z064life]

Sheets Tabuer said:

unregister and re register esxi hosts

Use the vcenter automated ssl tool to replace the certificates.

install a new vcenter.

What does the logs say?

I have man flu I may not reply..

Looks like the automated ssl tool is my next choice.

I try to run the bat file but get an error that VMWARE_CIS_HOME is undefined.


Looks like an env variable I'm missing, can someone tell me what this var should contain?


Thanks!

[duff-man]

Z064life said:

Looks like the automated ssl tool is my next choice.

I try to run the bat file but get an error that VMWARE_CIS_HOME is undefined.


Looks like an env variable I'm missing, can someone tell me what this var should contain?


Thanks!

C:\Program Files\VMware\vCenter Server\

[geeks]

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