VMware vCenter Losing Connection in Settings

[Brett Jamen]

We have started to monitor our VMware environment using SIM. I can enter our vCenter server in Options - VMware vCenter settings and then associate our 8 VMware servers using Configure - Virtual Machine - Register Virtual Machine Hosts. All of the information will populate and everything looks great. At around 1600 everyday, I get an error in SIM that Initiating Insight Control virtual machine management service shutdown. The VMware vCenter server is no longer in the Settings tab. I can restart the HP Insight Control virtual machine management service on the SIM server, reenter the vCenter information and re-register the VM hosts, but at around 1600 the next day, the same error occurs.

I am running Insight Control 6.0 SP1 on a DL360 G5 Windows 2008 64-bit.