{"id":823,"date":"2014-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fir3netwp.gmsrrpobkbd.com\/2014\/01\/01\/vmware-vcetntrevsphere-shows-virtual-machine-as-unknown-vm-and-inaccessible\/"},"modified":"2023-01-06T16:03:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T16:03:21","slug":"vmware-vcetntrevsphere-shows-virtual-machine-as-unknown-vm-and-inaccessible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fir3net.com\/Virtualization\/Vmware\/vmware-vcetntrevsphere-shows-virtual-machine-as-unknown-vm-and-inaccessible.html","title":{"rendered":"VMware vCentre\/vSphere ‘Unknown VM’ and Inaccessible"},"content":{"rendered":"

Issue<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Within the vSphere client or vCentre your virtual machine(s) are named as ‘Unknown VM’ and are inaccessible.<\/p>\n

Solution<\/strong><\/h2>\n

This can be caused by connectivity issues between the hypervisor and its datastore. To resolve the issue follow these steps,<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Log into the virtual machines host via SSH.<\/li>\n
  2. Then change directory via the command\u00a0 ‘cd \/var\/lib\/vmware\/hostd\/stats<\/strong>‘.<\/li>\n
  3. List the files in the directory via ‘ls<\/strong>‘. There should be 4.<\/li>\n
  4. Remove the files using ‘rm *<\/strong>‘.<\/li>\n
  5. Then restart the management agents via the command ‘\/etc\/init.d\/hostd restart && \/etc\/init.d\/vpxa restart<\/strong>‘.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Example<\/strong><\/h2>\n
    ~ # cd \/var\/lib\/vmware\/hostd\/stats<\/strong>\r\n\/var\/lib\/vmware\/hostd\/stats # ls<\/strong>\r\nhostAgentStats-20.stats\u00a0 hostAgentStats.idMap\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 hostAgentStats.xml\r\n\/var\/lib\/vmware\/hostd\/stats # rm *<\/strong>\r\n\/var\/lib\/vmware\/hostd\/stats # \/etc\/init.d\/hostd restart<\/strong>\r\nwatchdog-hostd: Terminating watchdog process with PID 4982\r\nhostd stopped.\r\nhostd started.\r\n\/var\/lib\/vmware\/hostd\/stats # \/etc\/init.d\/vpxa restart<\/strong>\r\nwatchdog-vpxa: Terminating watchdog process with PID 5279\r\nvpxa stopped.\r\n\/var\/lib\/vmware\/hostd\/stats #<\/pre>\n
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