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5 Replies Last post: Nov 2, 2009 11:26 PM by tom howarth  

hung vsphere esxi posted: Aug 27, 2009 7:50 AM

Click to view smokeman's profile Novice 11 posts since
Jan 19, 2005
We noticed a problem with a vpn server we have running virtual. We started troubleshooting, and the screen froze while we were using it....not just for a second either, it was for about 10-15 seconds.
We were about to start installing that machine from scratch, when we jumped on another vm we had running on the same esxi host, and it had frozen also....(That's not supposed to happen, right?)
Dell poweredge 2950 with dual quad core cpu's, and 32gigs ram. We are still using local storage, on a raid5, with 5 - 300 gig 15k sas drives.

As I said in the subject, this is a newly installed vsphere esxi server. It was upgraded....was that our mistake?
how can we tell what went wrong, so we know to call dell, or vmware?

Thanks,
Barry Smoke
AR Division of Legislative Audit

Re: hung vsphere esxi

3. Oct 21, 2009 1:25 PM in response to: smokeman
Click to view johnswb's profile Hot Shot 239 posts since
Feb 14, 2006
I've had the same problem with the ESXi 3.5 version with two physical IBM servers.

Will Johnson
VCP on VI3
2009 vEXPERT

Re: hung vsphere esxi

5. Nov 2, 2009 11:26 PM in response to: smokeman
Click to view tom howarth's profile Guru 7,351 posts since
Jul 25, 2005
Lesson 1 on why ESXi is not yet enterprise ready. no management, with full ESX you could have added Openmanage to the Service Console.

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Tom Howarth VCP / vExpert
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