VMware Troubleshooting: VM's grayed out as Disconnected, Inaccessible, Orphaned or Invalid
On daily basis we face lots of connectivity issue on virtual machine and here some troubleshooting hints to find/fix the issue. Disconnected A virtual machine is marked as disconnected when the vCenter has lost communication to the ESXi host where the virtual machine is running. The host is marked as not responding. This state is usually caused by a host that has been crashed. Other reasons could be network issues or problems with the vpxa service running on the host. In this state vSphere HA would usually comes into play and tries to restart the virtual machine on another host in the cluster. Solution You can quickly reproduce that state by stopping vpxa (~ # /etc/init.d/vpxa stop) Inaccessible A virtual machine is marked as inaccessible when the host can no longer access the virtual machine configuration (.vmx) file. Solution That state can be caused by problems with the storage array or a renamed folder in the datastore. When there is no issue wit...