Restarting the management agents in esxi the easy way
Restarting the management agents in esxi is usually the first thing I try whenever a host starts acting weird or shows up as "Not Responding" in vCenter. It's one of those classic "turn it off and back on again" tricks that works surprisingly often in the world of virtualization. The best part is that you can usually do this without actually affecting the virtual machines that are running on the host. It just gives the management side of things a much-needed kick in the pants. ...