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  • 1.  Impact if we restart Management Agent

    Posted Apr 01, 2014 12:20 PM


    Dear team,

    Before restarting below service what things needs to be taken care of

    if restart hostd  service what will be the impact

    if I restart vpxa service what will be the impact

    if I restart all management agent service then what will the impact

    regards

    Mr Vmware



  • 2.  RE: Impact if we restart Management Agent

    Posted Apr 01, 2014 12:39 PM

    i think it will kill the ongoing snapshot process.



  • 3.  RE: Impact if we restart Management Agent

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Apr 01, 2014 12:49 PM

    Wrong forum is this.
    :)



  • 4.  RE: Impact if we restart Management Agent

    Posted Apr 04, 2014 06:08 AM

    can some one tell me if restart management agent what will be the impact on ESXi , vCenter, backup, Clone, network etc...



  • 5.  RE: Impact if we restart Management Agent

    Posted Apr 07, 2014 08:37 AM

    Take a look at this one:

    VMware KB: Restarting the Management agents on an ESXi or ESX host

    Caution: Restarting the management agents may impact any tasks that may be running on the ESXi/ESX host at the time of the restart


    See also a previous post

    what is difference between hostd, Vpxa and vpxd.

    Or take a google hit :

    What is hostd and vpxa ? | VM.Blog.

    Virtualization The Future: Vmware hostd and vpxa on ESXi 5.X