ESXi Host Availability

ESXi Host Availability dashboard displays the list of unresponsive ESXi hosts, list of hosts in maintainance mode, and list of powered on or unknown power state of the ESXi hosts.

Hosts in maintainance mode and power state is an user initiated action. A host becomes becomes unresponsive because of an external factor that vCenter Server is unaware of. This can happen due to several reasons such as a network connectivity issue between the host and vCenter Server.

On the ESXi Hosts Availability dashboard, the Unresponsive ESXi widget displays the Power State as Unknown and Maintainance State as notIn Maintainance.

How to Use the Dashboard

• In the Unresponsive ESXi widget, click any ESXi host from the list.
  • The Parent Cluster of selected ESXi widget is automatically displayed once you click any host. This widget displays the cluster properties of the selected ESXi hosts such as HA enabled, DRS enabled.
  • The ESXi Hosts in the selected cluster widget is automatically displayed once you click any cluster property tab. This widget displays the number of unresponsive and running hosts. You can identify which hosts has issues and try resolving the issues by accessing the hosts.
• Click any host in the ESXi on Maintenance Mode or Power on or Unknown Power State ESXi widget to view the details in the Parent Cluster of selected ESXi widget.
• Click any cluster property tab in the Parent Cluster of selected ESXi widget to view the details in the ESXi Hosts in the selected cluster.