Hello,
I have just finished installing the ESXi 5 server and the vSphere client on the client computer. However, every single time, I am met with a cryptic message:
The request failed because of a connection failure. (Unable to connect to the remote server)
Call "ServiceInstance.RetrieveContent" for object "ServiceInstance" on Server "172.17.32.20" failed.
I've captured some packets to see what's going on with the following communique:
Client->Server:
GET /clients/clients.xml HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: VMware VI Client/4.0.0
Host: 172.17.32.20
Connection: Keep-Alive
Server->Client:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:56:56 GMT
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/xml
Content-Length: 373
<ConfigRoot>
<clientConnection id="0000">
<authdPort>902</authdPort>
<version>5</version>
<exactVersion>5.0.0</exactVersion>
<patchVersion>1.0.0</patchVersion>
<apiVersion>5.0</apiVersion>
<downloadUrl>http://vsphereclient.vmware.com/vsphereclient/4/5/5/9/6/4/VMware-viclient-all-5.0.0-455964.exe</downloadUrl>
</clientConnection>
</ConfigRoot>
With the exception of a few opening and closing packets, that's all that went between the two. I have redownloaded the client and reinstalled it again, but I am still getting the same error message. Can somebody shed some light on how to get this to work?
Thanks.