Troubleshooting on unresponsive VMWare ESXi management console
Symptom:
- All VMs are running fine.
- Cannot connect to management console via vSphere client (simply timout). Or you may get an 503 error (Service Unavailable) when trying to login.
Judgement:
- VMWare management service failure
Solution:
- Your SSH interface must be enabled.
- SSH to your ESXi server
- Restart the management service at command prompt
- For ESX: service mgmt-vmware restart
- For ESXi: /sbin/services.sh restart
- For ESXi 5.5:
/etc/init.d/hostd restart && /etc/init.d/vpxa restart
Reference 1: Serverfault.com (503 error)
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