vmWare Service Instance Connection Failure

Posted: January 5, 2012 in Virtualisation
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This took me forever to find a solution so I thought I’d press it.

**Thanks to http://www.nedersoft.nl/index.php/tips-a-trucks/57-esx-4/170-the-request-failed-because-of-a-connection-failure for the original solution

Call “ServiceInstance.RetrieveContent” for object “ServiceInstance” on Server “xxxxxxx” failed…

vmware_vsphere_client

solution

  1. Open Command Prompt
  2. Type “netsh winsock reset”
    I had this problem on rare occasions when changing vSphere versions or trying to connect to a ESXi box on the other end of a VPN tunnel.
Comments
  1. Richard "Skavenger" Wall says:
    January 5, 2012 at 4:21 pm

    I’ve just discovered that this has also fixed my issue that after installing vShpere Client 5 I was unable to connect to any ESXi 4.1 hosts.

    Reply
  2. Raiden says:
    March 9, 2012 at 11:45 am

    Thank you sir! You helped me a lot!

    Reply

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