Diagnostics for VMware Cloud Foundation: ESX Health: VPXA service status

Products

• VCF Operations

Issue/Introduction

The vpxa service communicates between the vpxd service on vCenter and the hostd service on ESX host, and if vpxa goes down, vCenter considers hosts as unresponsive.

• Critical status of vpxa Health indicates connectivity issues between ESX hosts and the vpxa service.
• The warning status of vpxa Health indicates an underlying issue that might cause a degradation of vpxa health.

 

Environment

VCF Operations 9.x

Resolution

• Check ESX host status (from ESX Console/SSH):
  • Verify the status of the hostd service by using the command:  $ /etc/init.d/hostd status
    The status should be Running. If the service status is Stopped, restart it with the command: /etc/init.d/hostd start
  • Ping vCenter from ESX:
    $ ping <vCenter_IP_or_FQDN> or check the connectivity health screen between vCenter and the host. Ensure the ESX host can reach vCenter.
• If the vpxa agent is unable to update or save the configuration in Configstore or a disk, check if the service is running.

For any config_issues in vpxa, retrieve the vpxa health report by logging into the ESXi host.

$ localcli system health report get -r vmw.vpxaStatus

From this health report, look at the config_issues and any configuration update issues and the connected_to_hostd field for vpxa-hostd connectivity.