Hello,

I have the same error.

appliance whith vprotect-server and vprotect-node
esxi 7.0 U3

[2023-07-27 16:00:57.997] INFO [pool-5-thread-22] VmwareHypervisor.connect:663
[10e87cb3-ed9e-4d66-a389-1bf991e07d32] Connected to ESXi at: 192.168.72.95:22

[2023-07-27 16:00:58.021] ERROR [pool-5-thread-22] VmwareServiceClient.connect:104
[10e87cb3-ed9e-4d66-a389-1bf991e07d32] Error while connecting to VMware service

[2023-07-27 16:00:58.021] ERROR [pool-5-thread-22] ExportTask.run:135
[10e87cb3-ed9e-4d66-a389-1bf991e07d32] Backup task failed:

java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
at sun.nio.ch.Net.connect0(Native Method) ~[?:?]
at sun.nio.ch.Net.connect(Net.java:483) ~[?:?]
at sun.nio.ch.Net.connect(Net.java:472) ~[?:?]
at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.connect(SocketChannelImpl.java:692) ~[?:?]
at java.nio.channels.SocketChannel.open(SocketChannel.java:194) ~[?:?]
at eu.storware.vprotect.engine.hypervisor.vmware.socket.VmwareServiceClient.connect(VmwareServiceClient.java:101) ~[engine.jar:?]
at eu.storware.vprotect.engine.hypervisor.vmware.socket.VmwareServiceClient.<init>(VmwareServiceClient.java:66) ~[engine.jar:?]
at eu.storware.vprotect.engine.hypervisor.vmware.connector.ConnectorMessageSender.<init>(ConnectorMessageSender.java:40) ~[engine.jar:?]
at eu.storware.vprotect.engine.hypervisor.vmware.strategy.ExportStrategy.init(ExportStrategy.java:76) ~[engine.jar:?]
at eu.storware.vprotect.engine.hypervisor.vmware.VmwareHypervisor.exportFull(VmwareHypervisor.java:168) ~[engine.jar:?]
at eu.storware.vprotect.engine.hypervisor.vmware.VmwareHypervisor.exportFull(VmwareHypervisor.java:94) ~[engine.jar:?]
at eu.storware.vprotect.engine.task.export.strategy.ExportFull.export(ExportFull.java:55) ~[engine.jar:?]
at eu.storware.vprotect.engine.task.ExportTask.exportBackup(ExportTask.java:219) ~[engine.jar:?]
at eu.storware.vprotect.engine.task.ExportTask.run(ExportTask.java:128) [engine.jar:?]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1128) [?:?]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:628) [?:?]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:829) [?:?]
[2023-07-27 16:00:58.080] INFO [pool-5-thread-22] ITask.lambda$finishTask$2:71
[10e87cb3-ed9e-4d66-a389-1bf991e07d32] Finishing 10e87cb3-ed9e-4d66-a389-1bf991e07d32: [Export] from 2023-07-27T16:00+02:00 to 2023-07-27T21:00+02:00 Task with message "ConnectException: Connection refused"