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Service mgmt-vmware restart may not restart hostd

You are using the command service mgmt-vmware restart but it does not finish restarting hostd.
The script gets stuck when stopping the service.
The SSH session to the ESX host becomes unresponsive.
hostd does not restart

You must manually stop the stuck service and restart it.

To stop the service and restart it:

Log in as root to the ESX host command-line via the physical console or via KVM connection.
Navigate to the /var/run/vmware directory:

# cd /var/run/vmware
Run the following command to list the files vmware-hostd.PID and watchdog-hostd.PID :

# ls -l vmware-hostd.PID watchdog-hostd.PID
Determine the Process ID (PID) management service. View the contents of the vmware-hostd.PID file:

# cat vmware-hostd.PID

For example:

[root@vmware]# cat vmware-hostd.PID
1191[root@vmware]#
Use the resulting PID to kill the process.

Caution: Use the kill -9 command with care. It kills the process of the supplied PID without exception or confirmation.

# kill -9 <PID>

In this example you run kill -9 1191.
Delete the vmware-hostd.PID and watchdog-hostd.PID files:

# rm vmware-hostd.PID watchdog-hostd.PID
Start the management service.

# service mgmt-vmware start

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