ESX 3.5.0 and Windows 2008 R2 x64

[jfish]

I have setup a windows 2008 R2 x64 standard server on ESX 3.5.0 - its been running as a file server only for a few weeks. Today I went into the network properties to disable QoS and it hang the server

Symptoms were

-can not ping
-unable to open console via vSphere client

Had to do a reset of vm host in Vsphere

Is the problem due to 3.5.0 not being 2008 R2 x64 complaint.

I also read the VMWare SVGA driver can cause this, I have checked and the VGA drive is standard microsoft one.

Ayy ideas anyone

 

[m4cc45]

It sounds like the host crashed which would cause the virtual machine to crash so checking the ESX logs would be where I would start. Ensure it's fully patched, etc. if possible I'd certainly be thinking of moving to ESXi 5.0 (4.0 as a minimum) but that depends on your licecning, etc.

Other things to check are the hardware (MemtestX86+ would be a start as if the memory is faulty that would definitely cause the issue you mentioned).



M.

 

[jfish]

It sounds like the host crashed which would cause the virtual machine to crash so checking the ESX logs would be where I would start. Ensure it's fully patched, etc. if possible I'd certainly be thinking of moving to ESXi 5.0 (4.0 as a minimum) but that depends on your licecning, etc.

Other things to check are the hardware (MemtestX86+ would be a start as if the memory is faulty that would definitely cause the issue you mentioned).



M.

The ESX server also host another 3 virtual servers all Windows 2003 and my first view was the whole ESX hypervisor has crashed, but the other servers were fine, I could ping them, rdp to them and open console to them and all services were running - just this one host crashed