ESXi Management Service Stuck on running usbarbitrator start

Today I experienced an issue while restarting an ESXi 5.x host. Typically issuing a /sbin/services.sh restart will result in all management service stopping and restarting cleanly. However this particular ESXi Host kept getting stuck at the following:

Running memscrubd restart
The checkPages boot option is FALSE, hence memscrubd could not be started.
Running dcbd restart
dcbd started
Running cdp restart
cdp started
Running vobd restart
vobd started
Running vpxa restart
[12158983] Begin '/usr/lib/vmware/vpxa/bin/vpxa ++min=0,swap,group=vpxa -D /etc/vmware/vpxa', min-uptime = 60, max-quick-failures = 1, max-total-failures = 1000000, bg_pid_file = ''
Running usbarbitrator restart 

Looking for a solution I found the following  KB: Accessing USB storage and other USB devices from the service console


The KB states that this issue is due to USB Arbitrator service which manages USB passthrough. This service does not support simultaneous usb connections both from usb devices and from usb service console.

I killed the services restart command and issued a chkconfig usbarbitrator off command and then restarted the service as usual and evrything came up without any issues.