We have a vSphere 5.1 cluster with 4 hosts mixed with ESXi 5.1 and 4.1.
3 of the 4 hosts are prepared and working in a vCloud Director 5.1 Provider VDC.
Recently I upgraded the one left from ESXi 4.1 to 5.1. After the upgrade, I tried to prepare it for the vCloud Director Provider VDC. But run into an error:
Failures occurred during prepare of host XXXXX
- java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
- Read timed out
I have tried following things:
- Make sure there are no VMs running on the host. The host does actually go into Maintenance mode each time I run the preparation.
- Reboot the ESXi host
- Enable httpClient 80,443 on the ESXi firewall
- Run esxcli software vib list | grep vcloud to check if the agent is already installed. But nothing showed up.
All these made no difference. The installation still times out..
Anyone seen this before?