I can't give much detail of how this happened cause it happend to a system we weren't paying any attention to but these are the results:
When running vmware-cmd:
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/usr/local/vmware/bin/vmware-cmd: Could not connect to vmware-authd
(VMControl error -14: Unexpected response from vmware-authd: 511-The process exited with an error:
VMServerd Panic: The previous instance of serverd (6274) crashed, please file a bug. The default log file is /var/log/vmware/vmware-serverd.log. To continue, delete the following file: '/var/run/vmware/vmware-serverd.PID'
511 End of error message)
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Here is the vmware-serverd.log:
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Feb 15 12:40:52: app| NOT_TESTED (warning) F(5231):747
Feb 15 12:40:52: app| VMHSVMLoadConfig failed: Fail
Feb 15 12:40:52: app| VMHS_ManageVM failed: ret = Fail
Feb 15 12:40:52: app| SP: Removing VM: /home/applianz/vms/SERVER1/win2003server_clones/3b0d4754-5a13-4850-a766-e2b6e0c2bed9/3b0d4754-5a13-4850-a766-e2b6e0c2bed9.vmx
Feb 15 12:40:52: app| Failed to register. VMDB error: -6 Invalid argument
Feb 15 12:40:52: app| VMServerd IPC closed the connection with thread server (0x8319010)
Feb 15 12:40:52: app| VMServerd: server disconnected.
Feb 15 12:40:52: app| VMServerd_CheckMemLimit: Memory size 53216 KB exceeds 49152 KB limit.
Feb 15 12:40:52: app| Shutting down vmserverd (1).
Feb 15 12:40:52: app| CPU Utilization for serverd was : 57.924580
Feb 15 12:40:58: app| IPC_exit: disconnecting all threads
Feb 15 12:40:58: app| SP: Unregistered from the poll loop
Feb 15 12:40:58: app| AllocTrack: Successfully uninitialized.
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