Virtual machine creation may fail because agent is unable to retrieve VM creation options from the host (VMware ESXi vCenter Error) How to solve

Are you seeing “Virtual machine creation may fail because agent is unable to retrieve VM creation options from the host” on your ESXi host?

Don’t worry! Here’s a quick troubleshooting tip for you

1. Login to your ESXi host using putty
2. Check hostd status using following command /etc/init.d/hostd status
3. Next check vpxa status using following command /etc/init.d/vpxa status
4. Restart both hostd and vpxa using following command (This is an online activity)
   /etc/init.d/hostd restart
   /etc/init.d/vpxa restart
5. Check host status. This solved the issue for me!

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