vSphere HA agent not reachable on the ESXi host.

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• vSphere HA status on the host shows "Uninitialized":

• Cluster level vSphere HA is enabled:

• All the tasks on the impacted host is in "queued" state:

 

Environment

VMware vCenter 8.x

Cause

Queued tasks on the impacted ESXi host are preventing the FDM agent from being pushed successfully.

Resolution

1. Verify there are no active backup's running in the backend.

2. Verify the tasks are hung on ESXi for a longer period of time.

3. Restart vpxd service to clear the queued tasks running on the ESXi host from vCenter UI:

root@vCenter [ ~ ]# service-control --restart vmware-vpxd
Successfully restarted service vpxd

4. Re-configure vSphere HA for the specific host to push the fdm vib successfully..