So I'm trying to start a VM from the client connected to my vCSA and I'm getting this error;
“Power on Virtual Machine
The operation is not allowed in the current connection state of the host”.
If I log directly into the ESXi host though, the VM will start fine.
Setup
ESXi 5.0 on a test system for VCP
Shuttle Barebones
Xeon E3 1120
8 GB Corsair RAM
I have 4 Vms
vCSA – 4 GB ram allocated, set to automatically startup/shutdown 120 seconds with the host
WXP - 1 GB ram allocated, set to automatically startup/shutdown 120 seconds with the host
W7 – 1GB ram
CentOS – 512 mb ram
i also have templates set up for WXP, W7, and CentOS.
Now I originally had set the CentOS up with a template I created that allocated 2GB of ram. This does not seem to be isolated to any one VM. Error happens with any VM.
I have a yellow triangle with a black exclimation point on the ESXi host in the vCSA.
There are no memory or cpu reservations set on any machine.
Read some threads which suggested that I goto the DCUI and restart mgmt network, didn't work.
Someone said that there might be a disconnect between my vSphere and the database, but I've got the vCSA and the DB is local to that VM.
I think it's an alarm from not having enough RAM or my vCSA DB has become corruped from not being started/stopped properly. None of this was an issue till I started setting VMs to start/stop with the host and until I put up this last CentOS VM.
Thoughts?