ESX host disappears from vCenter webclient inventory when VSC 6.1 is installed.

[ricke]

We Installed VSC 6.1 on our environment and I’ve noticed that when provisioning a datastore with the VSC or directly from onCommand, it gets created and mounted but its information is not available on the VSC plugin until we restart the VSC service.
Also we are tracking an issue that seemed to have pop up when we installed the VSC plug in, where the host does not show up in the vCenter inventory but it only affects the web client, If we use the vSphere C# client we can see the host in the inventory. If we disable and unregister the VSC extension and restart the web client service the host shows up in the inventory of the web client again.

We are using vSphere 6 Multi-vCenter using separate Platfom Service Controllers.

Any one else seen these problems?

[dnchance]

I applied this the day it came out and it seems to have done the trick for us.  

I heard from support it was a bad API on vmware's part and this patch basically removes the use of that API.  

[jimmy888]

Installing VSC patch 6.2P1 also fixed my issue with hosts disappearing from vCenter.  However, it seems to have introduced a new one.  My hosts now randomly disconnect from vCenter.  vCenter logs would indicated that there was an error with the host name in subject for the host certificate.  I have verified the host cert and thumbprint as being correct.  Since unregistering VSC from vCenter and shutting it down the random host disconnects have stopped.  Has anyone else been experiencing this issue with VSC?

[jsancheziii]

Did you continue to see the issue with ESXi host disconnecting after installing 6.2P1? Do you see them disconnecting in the recent tasks area?

[PvD1975]

Hello,

I have implemented VSC 6.2P1 and have not experienced any disappearing hosts anymore. I am now in the process of upgrading/installing the other components (VASA/SRA 3.0) to get my VMware SRM environment active again.

So far so good!

[jsancheziii]

I have not either. We are using vSphere 6.0 Update 2 and a vCenter 6.0 Appliance.