Comments on: VI Client Open Console Attempt Fails

By: 9413systems

9413systems — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:31:13 +0000

Worked for me.

By: 9413systems

9413systems — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:31:13 +0000

Worked for me.

By: vm rook

vm rook — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:44:17 +0000

I believe it may have something to do with the vm-late module that loads during boot. We had an issue where all of our esx hosts began failing to connect to our ipsan after configuring the iscsi software initiator on a new host. We did an interactive reboot (press i when modules start loading)and stopped it from loading (looks like vm-late has to do with iscsi and nfs; anyone confirm?) but then we could not open a console through vi client to any box and the client would freeze. We then disabled the iscsi initiator, rebooted the server and let vm-late reload. After this, opening guest consoles were successful. I cannot explain why, but I hope this can help someone out there if they try it.

By: Daily Digest for 2009-02-10 | Mingle Mangle of my mind

Daily Digest for 2009-02-10 | Mingle Mangle of my mind — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:21:52 +0000

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By: Tom Courtney

Tom Courtney — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 02:17:41 +0000

If you are accessing the console via VI client you also need ports 901 and 902 open

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:23:27 +0000

Does anyone ever have the issue where that line added to the /etc/vmware/config goes away after rebooting? For some reason that seems to be happening to us. I’ve saved the file, but after reboot the line I added is gone.

By: serverchief

serverchief — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:28:24 +0000

Hi.. thanks alot… fixed my issue as well..

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:36:40 +0000

I am running ESX 2.5 and this fixed my problem. Thank-you.