Restart management Agents

ESXi Management agent can be restarted in couple of ways 

DUCI 

• Connect to ESXi Host 
• Press F2 , provide the credentials ( Login using root)
• Go to Trouble shooting , Navigate to Restart ,Management Agents

Local Console or ssh 

Method 1 : No Down time to VMs

• /sbin/services.sh restart

will restart all the management agents, hostd, ntpd, sfcbd, slpd, wsman, vodb

Method 2 :

Run following commands,

• /etc/init.d/hostd restart
• /etc/init.d/vpxa restart

Method 3 : 

• service mgmt-vmware restart
• service vmware-vpxa rest

If Automatic Startup/shutdown is enabled on VMs , virtual machine may restart.