{"id":1106,"date":"2014-02-01T02:55:09","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T02:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2014-02-11T03:38:06","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T03:38:06","slug":"esxi-5-5-error-vsphere-client-could-not-connect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/?p=1106","title":{"rendered":"ESXi 5.5 Error: vSphere Client could not connect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can&#8217;t connect to one virtual host with vsphere, but the others are working from the same client.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>vSphere Client could not connect to &#8220;192.168.1.100&#8221;.<br \/>\nAn unknown connection error occurred. (The client could not send a complete request to the server. (The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send.))<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tsmith.co\/2013\/xp-cant-connect-via-vsphere-5-5-c-client\/\">http:\/\/tsmith.co\/2013\/xp-cant-connect-via-vsphere-5-5-c-client\/<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The solution:<br \/>\nSo, how do we get around this?  Well, the best answer would be to upgrade to Vista or higher. Obviously, if you haven\u2019t yet, there is a reason.<br \/>\nOn 64bit version of XP and 2003, simply install <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/948963\">this<\/a> hotfix from Microsoft.  If you are using a 32bit version, there is no hotfix, and we need to edit the vCenter server to allow older encryption methods.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fortunately (if SSH is enabled), richardvm over on <a href=\"https:\/\/communities.vmware.com\/thread\/458838\">this post on the VMWare forums<\/a> has instructions for handling it;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>4. Re: Windows XP vSphere Client 5.5<br \/>\nFor those that don&#8217;t have vCenter or want to connect to a stand alone ESXi 5.5 host via the vSphere Client, you&#8217;ll need to ssh into the ESXi host and modify the following file: \/etc\/vmware\/rhttpproxy\/config.xml<\/p>\n<p>Insert the following xml line into the appropriate section:<\/p>\n<pre><code>&lt;vmacore&gt;\r\n        ...\r\n        &lt;ssl&gt;\r\n            ...\r\n            &lt;cipherList&gt;ALL&lt;\/cipherList&gt;\r\n        ... \r\n        &lt;\/ssl>&gt;\r\n    ...\r\n&lt;\/vmacore&gt;<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>After saving your changes restart the service:<br \/>\n\/etc\/init.d\/rhttpproxy restart<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can&#8217;t connect to one virtual host with vsphere, but the others are working from the same client. vSphere Client could not connect to &#8220;192.168.1.100&#8221;. An unknown connection error occurred. (The client could not send a complete request to the server. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/?p=1106\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1119,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions\/1119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}