July 25, 2019

FIPS mode initialized or FIPS initializing SSH Error


Today I was working on my Test environment i got this issue  -


I was trying to ssh form one Esxi to another and I got below error

FIPS mode initialized



I never had this issue earlier .. I also could not find a KB, just found this post on vmware community
and it resolved my issue..

All i had to do is disable firewall on both esxi hosts.



esxcli network firewall set -e false

it worked like a charm.  Thanks