VMware Host Connection Failure

This status reports on lost connections to the VMware host.A host connection failure could result in downtime for Oracle VMware and SQL Server on VMware databases.

Definition

A VMware host connection failuremay be caused by the following issues:

  • Lack of response from the VMware host agent.
  • Network error
  • Timeout on the connection attempt

Solution

Most often, downtime can be avoided by either restarting the VMware service or shutting down a non-responsive service that hangs the host agent.

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