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Ghost vcenter keeps popping up ("Could not connect to one or more vCenter Server systems")

A removed vCenter server Appliance keeps popping up on our vcenter server vcenter1.domain.com.
Were using Linked Mode to link our 3 vcenters together.

Could not connect to one or more vCenter Server systems:
https://photon-machine.domain.com:443/sdk

I have removed the photon-machine using

msso-util unregister --node-pnid Platform_Services_Controller_System_Name --username administrator@your_domain_name --passwd vCenter_Single_Sign_On_password

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and

C:\Program Files\VMware\vCenter Server\vmdird>vdcleavefed.exe -h photon-machine.domain.com -u administrator -w <pw>

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vdcleavefd offline for server photon-machine.domain.com
Leave federation cleanup done

The photon-machine no longer appear under "Nodes".

But the error keeps popping up on vcenter1.domain.com.

Any ideas where to go from here?

Thanks,

Bjorn

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Mr Tortu(r)e

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Murali Sripada

Photon-machine cannot be the PNID..
You can run the below command to get the vcenter server registration and the url which has the pnid..which i suspect could be the ip address i n your case

/usr/lib/vmidentity/tools/scripts/lstool.py list --url https://localhost/lookupservice/sdk --no-check-cert --ep-type com.vmware.vim 2>/dev/null

Joergen Lind

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@Mr Tortur. I see. We are using a deprecated configuration. I'll set up our vcenters as per the KB article https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2147672 instead of troubleshooting the current setup.

Thanks

Ghost vcenter keeps popping up (&quot;Could not connect to one or more vCenter Server systems&quot;)

Ghost vcenter keeps popping up ("Could not connect to one or more vCenter Server systems")