Change vCenter resources while it is offline.

Case: you want to change virtual vCenter resources while vCenter is on the same ESXi host its manage.

There is a default mechanism that will prohibit you from resource change when vCenter is not available. All changes should be made with vCenter – which have sense. But, what with vCenter itself if you need to change parameters and it is offline.

 

Resolution is described in kb2021618; https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2021618

In short:

  1. /etc/init.d/vpxa stop
/etc/init.d/hostd restart
  2. do the necessary change
  3. /etc/init.d/vpxa start

 

During service restart you will be probably disconnected from vCenter client. Sorry 😉

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