How to kill and reset the vmware-aam service

Information:

1)      Log in to the service console of the ESX host

2)      Verify that VMware HA is stopped using:

service vmware-aam stop \

 

3)      Ensure there are no VMware HA processes running by using:

ps ax | grep aam | grep -v grep

 

4)      If processes exist, kill them using the Process ID returned by the previous command (first column) as the PID

kill -9 PID

 

5)      Issue the following command via the service console including the parentheses (cd /etc/opt/vmware/aam; mkdir .old; mv * .old; mv .[a-z]* .old)

 

6)      Using the Virtual Infrastructure Client

a.       Right click the Host

b.      Select Reconfigure for VMware HA