XenDesktop 7 does not show up newly added/created VMs on the VMware ESXi 5 Hypervisor

To setup a new Desktop VMs Pool, you create a new Desktop VM with all the required settings.  However, while creating a new Machine Catalog to chose the newly build Desktop VM as the Master Image, its NOT listed. 

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This happens whenever your vCenter server having trouble communicating with VMware ESXi host.  Thus XenDesktop 7 wouldn’t be able to see the respective VMs and their changes.  In my case, vCenter server was unable to connect to ESXi host since my ESXi licenses got expired.

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License Expiry warning causing Communication failure between my vCenter and ESXi host.

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