After SSH'd to a ESXi 5.1 host I wanted to stop the ssh daemon and then disable the SSH firewall rule via Virtual Center console, which gave me the next error message:
After doing some research I discovered this is a bug in ESXi 5.1
Today Virtual Center suddenly stopped responding to our clients. When I tried to restart the Virtual Center Server service it wouldn't start, error message: Couldn't logon with supplied account...strange because nothing changed, at least not that I was aware of.