After playing with a fresh install of ESXi 6.5 we found that the CIM services were off and when we turned them on it shows it was running but on further evaluation we found the service had failed and CIM watchdog service was not running.
Going to the SSH console and running a
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/etc/init.d/sfcbd-watchdog start
After doing some research we found that in 6.5 you should enable the service like so
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esxcli system wbem set --enable true
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/etc/init.d/sfcbd-watchdog start
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lsof -nPV | awk {'count[$2]++}END{for(i in count)print count[i], i'} | sort -n
Look at the output and see if in the list returned you see the following 2 services
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sfcb-HTTP-Daemo
sfcb-HTTPS-Daem
Do not just try and start the service, it will say it's running but will have failed to start. To see if CIM is running or not just go to the hardware tab in the ESX Web UI. No Data means no CIM services available.
A good output when running watchdog start command
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/etc/init.d/sfcbd-watchdog start
sfcbd-init: Getting Exclusive access, please wait...
sfcbd-init: Exclusive access granted.
sfcbd-init: Request to start sfcbd-watchdog, pid 69438
sfcbd-config[69448]: No third party cim providers installed
sfcbd-init: snmp has not been enabled.
sfcbd-init: starting sfcbd
sfcbd-init: Waiting for sfcb to start up.
sfcbd-init: Program started normally.