Friday, November 25, 2011

Invalid configuration for device ’0′ when enabling a NIC in vSphere

Suddenly a VM was unreachable on all interfaces. Upon investigation, I saw that none of the NIC's were set to connected:







When I tried to enable them again I got Invalid configuration for device ’0′:




Some googling led to a simple solution, which is to restart the management agents:

service mgmt-vmware restart

and

service vmware-vpxa restart

Good to know. Thanks go to the cupfighters for investigating it deeper and leading me to the answer.
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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 15, 2012 at 12:35 PM

    I'm having the same problem here but with ESXi 5.

    On ESXi 5, there is no such command 'service'.

    Any thoughts?

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    1. Akos BatorfiJune 18, 2012 at 1:28 PM

      Hi Bobby,

      Log in to the ESXi console, go to Troubleshooting Options, then Restart Management Agents.

      http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1003490

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  2. AnonymousAugust 8, 2012 at 6:46 PM

    For ESXi5 /sbin/services.sh restart

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  3. 최범락June 3, 2013 at 5:54 AM

    Today, Are experiencing the same problem.

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  4. UnknownJuly 17, 2013 at 1:08 AM

    This fixed it for me.

    http://blog.mrpol.nl/2013/01/29/solving-the-invalid-configuration-for-device-0-error/

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