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I'm using VMware ESXi 5.5.0 1331820 with a eight Windows guests. Sometimes I can't connect anymore via vSphere Client to the host.

A restart of the hostd and vpxa doesn't resolve the problem. So, I need to restart the services with the command services.sh. After this I can connect again to the host via vSphere Client.

But then I see only a black screen in the Console-view on each guest. It seems that the VMware Tools on each guest are down or not running.

If I send a reboot command to guest A from guest B, the problem still persists on guest A.

If I send a shutdown command to guest A from guest B so it's completely down, and then a power on, the Console-view is ok.

Do you have any tips or solutions for me?

Best regards, Ronny

Ronny
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  • Are you sure the black screen in Console-view is not just the screen-saver? Are the guests still responding to the network? Have you accessed their log files, and what do they say? Please give more information. – Law29 Dec 27 '15 at 12:56

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VMware ESXi build 1331820 - 22 SEPT 2013

Update your VMware.

There's no excuse to be running such an old version of ESXi. You know they have periodic updates and patches, right?

The current build is 3248547. Try that.

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ewwhite
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  • thank you. I'll try to update the ESXi to build 3248547. Hope this resolves the problems.... – Ronny Dec 27 '15 at 13:52
  • Update build 3248547 successfully performed today. I'll tell you in a few days, if the problems still exists. – Ronny Dec 28 '15 at 08:44
  • Thank you - it seems that the update resolves the problem at this time. Crazy - i have the build version 1331820 over 1 year without any troubles. No changes made in this year....suddenly the problems occurs. – Ronny Jan 05 '16 at 12:26