ESX Host Recovery and Rebuild Procedures in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1
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ESX Host Recovery and Rebuild Procedures in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1

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Article ID: 455767

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Products

VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

 ESXi host fails to boot in VCF 9.1 and requires manual removal from the environment. 

Environment

VCF 9.1

ESX

Resolution

  1. Attempt a Force removal of the host from the workload domain using current TechDoc procedures.
  2. Leverage the staleIpCleanup.py attached to KB316098 to free the IPs used by the failed host