Hi All.
I'm hoping someone might have an answer, I tried the VMware blog where I found a "solution" but it hasn't helped.
I hope this will make sense.
I have a nested environment in VMWorkstation 10.0.0. Using VMware ESXi 5.1
I currently have 3 hosts, DC, vCenter, openfiler (ISCSI SAN) running. I had this set up with only 1 VM running on host 1. I was able to connect to this host and do anything I needed to using vSphere. I am still able to connect to it now.
On Monday, I reinstalled windows from 2012 to 2008. due to the back ups I do, I restore back my settings in my Firewall program Vipre/Sunbelt.
I created a second VM on host 2, but unfortunately I was getting an error of "Unable to Connect to MKS" So I went and created the VM on host 3, I continued to get the error when I went into Console to install windows.
I am still able to connect via console to the VM on Host 1.
I turned off the Firewall both in Server2k8. and Vipre. I also turned it off in vCenter (AS recommended by VMware) and following their instructions to set a line in the /etc/vmware/config file to "True" (which was already set). No luck connecting to any of them.
Each host has 4 NICs, however, only 2 are able to see the production side, and the other 2 are set to see the SAN on a different subnet. They are able to see the SAN still. The two production NICs are set up as Active/Standby. I have added the Mac address into the exception list of my firewall as I have had to do this for VMs in the past with Vipre, I also added the vcenter.
I'm starting to run out of ideas, keep in mind that host 1 is not in any exception list yet, however, host 2 and 3 were set up the same way as host 1, and then got put into exceptions once they weren't working. I have also added the ports 902 - 903 into the open ports list.
I have refreshed/flushed the DNS - removed and created new records. I have Disconnected and Attemptped to reconnect the hosts, but getting the below Error through the C# Client.
Call "Datacenter.QueryConnectionInfo" for object "New Datacenter" on vCenter Server "server2.ssit.com" failed.
When I log on through the WebGUI from the desktop I am able to see the hosts in the list and both 2 and 3 disconnected, I can connect to 3 without even being asked for Credentials, however, host 2 asks and then fails due to no server available. If I log on through the C# client on the vCenter server I can reconnect all hosts.
Hopefully this is making sense, would be great to see if anyone has come across this before.
Any more information, please ask.
Thanks guys