I tried shutting down vcenter (using the appliance) and it appeared to hang after starting the embedded database. Had to delete and reinstall. Did a regen of the cert first thing out since I could login to the vsphere web client. After doing a reboot of vcenter from within the vcenter managment portal, I was able to vmotion. Ran it through its paces vmotioning between my two esxi hosts changing which iSCSI lun that it moved to and also trying the local datastore.
I appreciate your help on this. Havent looked at DRS yet. Just started working with ESXi at work and I am trying to get familiar with as much as I can before I go to class in a few weeks.
Havent noticed one quirk. vCenter appliance will hang on restart if I change from dhcp to static and regen the cert. My work around for now is to put a dhcp reservation in so that it always gets the same address. Figure that it is probably due my running it in 8GB ram on the mac mini.
Ron