VMware Communities: Message List - Losing network connectivity to one of guest vm's running Server 2003 and SQL 2005

Re: Losing network connectivity to one of guest vm's running Server 2003 and SQL 2005

hillda01 — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:48:35 GMT

Do you take snapshots of the server?

We've seen network drop outs when a snapshot is taken...

Re: Losing network connectivity to one of guest vm's running Server 2003 and SQL 2005

steven.tolson — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:00:32 GMT

Does disconnecting and then reconnecting to the network from within the Virtual Machines properties get the VM back online without requiring a reboot of the VM?

If so have you tried installing/re-installing the latest version of VMtools?

Steve

Re: Losing network connectivity to one of guest vm's running Server 2003 and SQL 2005

Anton V Zhbankov — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:35:15 GMT

It seems like a guest OS problem, not ESX.

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Losing network connectivity to one of guest vm's running Server 2003 and SQL 2005

slimejar — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:21:01 GMT

We have a ESX VMware cluster running 5 ESX hosts. The host are in a HA Cluster thats been working fine for quite a while. I recently installed a new VM guest running Windows 2003 Standard Edition. Then installed SQL 2005 Enterprise Edition so we can develope SQL instance databases.

Every few weeks we lose connectivity to this vm and cannot RDP to it or ping it. If I restart the guest OS' its fine for seemly a few more weeks. When I check the event logs on the Windows VM they are clean and no indications that Windows lost any network connectivity.

This is the only VM we have this issue with.

The server was a fresh installation, not deployed from one of our templates.

Thanks