ESXi 6.0 hosts become unresponsive when joined to an AD domain

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VMware vSphere ESXi

This issue is resolved in VMware ESXi 6.0, Patch Release ESXi600-201608001.

Symptoms:

When joined to an Active Directory (AD), ESXi host becomes unresponsive.
ESXi hosts show as Not Responding in vCenter Server.
The DCUI menu is slow to respond.
Enabling services such as ESXi Shell or SSH may fail.
In the /var/log/vmkernel.log file, you see entries similar to:

ALERT: hostd detected to be non-responsive WARNING: UserParam: 1301: could not change group to <host/vim/vmvisor/hostd-probe>: Admission check failed for memory resource WARNING: LinuxFileDesc: 5637: Unrecoverable exec failure: Failure during exec while original state already lost

Note: The preceding log excerpts are only examples. Date, time, and environmental variables may vary depending on your environment.
The ESXi hosts which are affected are all joined to Active Directory (AD) for Authentication Services.

This issue is resolved in VMware ESXi 6.0 Patch Release ESXi600-201608001 available at VMware Patch Downloads.

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