Hi,
Hope someone can help, I'm going round in circles!
I've been using ESXi for years, but always as single hosts. I recently got licensing for vCenter 6 Essentials and set about building a lab.
I've two ESXi Hosts, one Mac Mini (192.168.1.0/24) and one Dell PowerEdge (192.168.10.0/24), both running ESXi v6. vCenter v6 is running on a VM on the Dell Poweredge and is working. Can login/license/administrate etc. Also, I successfully added the Mac Mini to the new datacenter.
However, I cannot seem to add the Dell Poweredge. Every time I go through the add host process I get the following;
'Cannot contact the specified host (hostname.domain.local). The host may not be available on the network, a network configuration problem may exist, or the management services on this host may not be responding'
Also, when I RDP onto the VM hosting vCenter I can ping the Poweredge ESXi server by IP, Hostname and FQDN, but I cannot login to it via vSphere Client. However, if I use my laptop (192.168.1.0/24 range OR 192.168.10.0/24 range) I can successfully login to the Poweredge ESXi server.
Can I add an ESXi host to vCenter if vCenter is running on that host?
Any help would be appreciated!
Adam