Some good news. After trying the manual vpxa remove a few times, and then trying to re add the host to VC, it would still show as disconnected. But, this morning, the two VM's that I really needed finally shows up and are now assigned to the second host. I should be able to safely reinstall the failed ESX host from scratch. Is there a way to capture the settings from the second host, modify them for the correct name and IP settings, and apply them to the new host?
Darrell