Host does not reconnect to vCenter after upgrading to 7.0 U2 or later

Products

• VMware vCenter Server
• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

vCenter is unable to re-connect to ESXi after upgrading

Removing the ESXi host from inventory and reconnecting gives error 'A general system error occurred: Timed out Waiting for vpxa to start'

 

In the VPXA logs on the ESXi host you see messages similar to :

 

[ConfigStore:#######:] [####]Validation Error: '/core/vc_connection/preserve_server_ip' Additional property not allowed: preserve_server_ip

 

[ConfigStore:#######:] [####]Validation Error: '/core/vc_connection/server_ip' Additional property not allowed: server_ip

 

[ConfigStore:#######:] [####] Failed to validate Set

Resolution

This happens to due a malformed vpxa config.

 

Export and re-import the vpxa config

https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?articleNumber=335066 

 

When exporting , you may see a message similar to :

Schema does not contain property=preserve_server_ip schemaId=

Schema does not contain property=server_ip schemaId=

 

The above message reflect the malformed data in the vpxa logs.