Symptoms:
- In the /var/run/log/hostd.log on ESXi, you see entries similar to:
2020-06-17T06:45:00.204Z verbose hostd[13440B70] [Originator@6876 sub=PropertyProvider opID=hostd-probe-80ba user=dcui] RecordOp ASSIGN: info, haTask--vim.ServiceInstance.retrieveContent-202267195. Applied change to temp map.
CamHttpJoinComputeNode: 64
2020-06-17T06:45:01.380Z error hostd[12D40B70] [Originator@6876 sub=ActiveDirectoryAuthentication opID=kbhtkyne-f8i-h5:70000822-9b-5-80b8 user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCAL\Administrator] vmwauth Exception: Exception 0x000004cd: An operation was attempted on a nonexistent network connection.
- In C:\ProgramData\vCenterServer\logs\vmcamd on windows vCenter, you see vmcamd restarting while creating computer object for the ESXi host:
2020-06-17T06:51:50.491Z:t@19692:INFO: Creating machine account for Host 'sc1-10-78-229-148.domain.local', OU ''
2020-06-17T06:51:50.493Z:t@19692:INFO: VmCamCreateCacheKrb5Creds: DCAccountPrincipal=(pdpuser@DOMAIN.LOCAL)
2020-06-17T06:51:50.495Z:t@19692:INFO: VmCamCreateCacheKrb5Creds: credCache = C:\Windows\TEMP\tkt017028
2020-06-17T06:51:50.619Z:t@19692:INFO: First init creds cache, UPN(pdpuser@DOMAIN.LOCAL), size (7) passed
2020-06-17T06:51:52.036Z:t@20540:INFO: rpc_server_use_protseq_ep() succeeded, protoSeq (ncalrpc),endPoint(VMWareCamService).
2020-06-17T06:51:52.040Z:t@20540:INFO: rpc_server_use_protseq_ep() succeeded, protoSeq (ncacn_ip_tcp),endPoint(2016).
2020-06-17T06:51:53.042Z:t@20540:INFO: RPC service status (listening)
2020-06-17T06:51:53.043Z:t@20540:INFO: HTTPS server SSL set session cache mode returned the previously set cache mode
2020-06-17T06:51:53.045Z:t@20132:INFO: VmCamAdapterSrvInit
2020-06-17T06:51:53.046Z:t@20540:INFO: Webserver started on ports [::]:7475,[::]:7476s, clientAuth disabled
2020-06-17T06:51:53.047Z:t@20540:INFO: vmcamd: started!
2020-06-17T06:51:53.047Z:t@9472:INFO: CAMAdapterMainLoop: Start