Hi all.
I have just purchased the vSphere 6 essentials pack and have built the vCenter server with no issues. Its running on a newly built and patched Windows Server 2012 R2 with the firewall disabled. We do have a Palo Alto Network firewall between the ESXi host and vCenter Server but the rule between the networks is open ANY-ANY. VC is also connected to AD for authentication and licenses have been installed.
ESXi 6 is a brand new vanilla install on a Cisco UCS 240 M4. The only changes that have been made are hostname from localhost to its internal name. IP, DNS is all statically configured as well as DNS suffixes. I have also enabled SSH for testing.
Right now, I cannot add the ESXi host to vCenter. I get the following popups when trying to add the host:
Now when I trying to test ports from ESXi to VC, I see the following:
[root@BNE-P-VM-1:~] nc -z 172.31.42.21 443
[root@BNE-P-VM-1:~] nc -z 172.31.42.21 80
Connection to 172.31.42.21 80 port [tcp/http] succeeded!
Now when I run a telnet to the VC from another machine on the same subnet as the ESXi server I have no issues on 80 or 443. Is there something on the ESXi server that would be blocking this or is this normal behaviour?
I have also tried to connect via hostname, FQDN and IP address... all with no luck.
Any ideas???