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Connection Error When Using vmware-cmd in the Service Console
Details
Why do I get a connection lost error when I use vmware-cmd?
Solution
You may receive a connection error when you use the vmware-cmd command in the Service Console. This usually
occurs when the network connection for the Service Console has failed
and you are accessing the Service Console directly through the
physical console of your server. In this case, you log on directly
and use vmware-cmd to safely suspend your virtual machines, then
follow the procedures in
Knowledge Base Article 1010 to reestablish the network
connection.
You may encounter the connection error VMControl error -13: connection lost while attempting to usevmware-cmd. This occurs if you have installed and enabled
the ypbind utility, which is not a standard part of ESX Server;
it occurs because ypbind interferes with vmware-cmd.
You can avoid this error by shutting down the ypbind utility:
Log onto the Service Console as root.
Enter the command: # /etc/rc.d/init.d/ypbind stop
You should now be able to use vmware-cmd without encountering the connection error.
Keywords
Service; Console; vmware-cmd; ypbind; 1528
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