After a period time of starting VMware ESX server, when using VIC (VMware Infrastructure Client) to monitor the Virtual Machine, everything seems ok but, when you want to see the console, encounter with this error:
“error connecting: can not connect to host x.x.x.x: a connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.”
I see this error in about 5 ESX servers.
Today I find a solution to solve the above problem:
By default the VMware process not accepting proxy connection, by adding vmauthd.server.alwaysProxy = “TRUE” to “/etc/vmware/config” you can connect to different VM console without timeout problem.
A nice thing about that is, the configuration is take place synchronously, and doesn’t need anything to be restarted.
May be the problem can be solved by changing hosts file by adding the name of ESX server and VM , instead of editing VMware config file.
