ESX\ESXi host disconnects due to hostd running out of sessions with error: SOAP session count limit reached

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• The hostd.log located at /var/log/ displays the error message:

hostd-7821.log:[<YYYY-DD-MM> <HH:MM:SS>.362 F5B05B90 error 'SoapAdapter'] SOAP session count limit reached

• If trivia logging is enabled, these error messages appear in hostd.log:
  

[<YYYY-DD-MM> <HH:MM:SS>.007 F6378900 info 'Vmomi'] Activation [N5Vmomi10ActivationE:0x60453020] : Invoke done [waitForUpdates] on [vmodl.query.PropertyCollector:ha-property-collector]
<YYYY-DD-MM> <HH:MM:SS>.305 F575CB90 trivia 'SOAP'] Sending response to []: waitForUpdates
[<YYYY-DD-MM> <HH:MM:SS>.310 F5DAEB90 trivia 'SOAP'] Received soap request from [127.0.0.1]: waitForUpdates
[<YYYY-DD-MM> <HH:MM:SS>.310 F5DAEB90 trivia 'VersionValidator'] Method 'vmodl.query.PropertyCollector.waitForUpdates', user agent 'VMware-client/4.1.

• The SOAP session count has been set to 1000.
  
  
  

Environment

VMware vSphere ESXi 5.1

Cause

This error is caused by Waitforupdate calls initiated by the common information model (CIM) agent.

Resolution

This issue is resolved in:

ESXi 5.0 Update 3. For additional information, see VMware ESXi 5.0 Update 3 Release Notes.

ESXi 5.1 Update 2. For additional information, see VMware ESXi 5.1 Update 2 Release Notes.

To work around this issue, disable the CIM agent on the ESX\ESXi Host. For information on this process, see How to disable the CIM agent on the ESX/ESXi host (1025757).

Additional Information

For more information on logging, see Increasing VMware vCenter Server and VMware ESX/ESXi logging levels (1004795).

For more information, see vCenter Server logs report the error: SOAP session count limit reached (2004663).

Increasing VMware vCenter Server and VMware ESX/ESXi logging levels
How to disable the CIM agent on the ESX/ESXi host
vCenter Server logs report the error: SOAP session count limit reached
次のエラーで hostd がセッションを使い果たし、ESX/ESXi ホストが切断される：SOAP session count limit reached