A few times a year, my home lab gets bounced for whatever reason and generally because I have the vSphere vCenter living on top of the 5 ESXi nodes this causes an issue where when the hosts come back up we are lacking a fully functional vCenter, probably need to consider a better approach but here we are.
I am able to get into the vCenter Server Management console at https://192.168.169.181:5480 a port etched into my brain for some reason!
But when we head to services we have many that are not running and they should be.
I check the access settings and ensure that SSH is enabled so we can dive deeper and try and get these services up and running.
I first try ssh root@192.168.169.181 but I am met with
So my alternate way is using
ssh -o IdentitiesOnly=yes -o PreferredAuthentications=password -o PubkeyAuthentication=no root@192.168.169.181
Which gets me in to
I then use the service-control –status command to see the same what we have in the management UI
Followed by service-control –start –all which seems to sit here for a very long time but noting this down at this stage to make sure future me doesn’t do anything silly.
While the above was going on I checked the time tab in the management UI and we were back in time, around 2023 and wondered if this could be why things were not quite right and we were also using host based NTP, I changed this setting and got things up to date
In changing the time we were now able to get into
We do have to wait a while for things to finish initializing here. But maybe it was all down to time! I actually got impatient and hit the reboot button from the management UI.
Things do not look all that pretty and I may update if relevant here with what is going on!
