Hi ZACV,
I have some VM Hosts running ESXi 5.1. Their management server has crashed and is not recoverable.
How do I go about removing the link the ESXi install has to its management server seeing as though its no longer there?
I am slightly unclear as to what the query is. Let me see if I can understand this correctly:
1. You have a ESXi host on which you have VM's running.
2. When you mention "Management Server" do you mean the ESXi host itself has crashed with the VM's on it? Or do you mean that the Virtual Center Server to which the Host (ESXI 5.x) was connected to has crashed?
Scenario 1. If it is the ESXi 5.x host that has crashed with the VM's on it, if the VM's were on a shared datastore, you can right click and remove the host from the Virtual Center inventory and bring up the VM's that were there on the host on the surviving hosts by browsing the shared datastore and adding the VM's back to the inventory of the surviving hosts
Scenario 2. If the VC machine has crashed but the ESXi host with the VM's are still running, you can still get to the host by opening a vSphere Client session directly to the ESXi host
Regards
a