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1 Replies Last post: Jul 29, 2009 10:46 AM by azn2kew  

Settings on VMs change on their own? posted: Jul 28, 2009 7:24 AM

Click to view juchestyle's profile Master 1,357 posts since
Jun 20, 2005

Has anyone ever seen a situation where the settings in a VM change on their own?

For example the amount of memory or on the Resource tab in settings the Unlimited checkbox gets unchecked. I have been seeing this happen and I am trying to figure out if someone is doing this or if it could possibly be happening on its own.

As a side note there was a failure on the VMs in question when this occurred. The underlying infrastructure shut down because the cooling shut off and heated everything up to the point where the hosts shut down.

Let me know your thoughts, and if you have had your own failures anytime recently, hey, check your settings and see. Out of 70 VMs I see two that have changed.

Kaizen!

Re: Settings on VMs change on their own?

1. Jul 29, 2009 10:46 AM in response to: juchestyle
Click to view azn2kew's profile Champion 2,941 posts since
Jun 21, 2006

I haven't see any of this situation, but to get better ideas who manage or configure changes to your environment, I would look at custom users/roles permission so you can grant them accordingly, and after that make sure you have good logs management where it can ship your logs to a remote log servers like kiwi or something of your choice if not pay for a commercial log management utilities like LogLogic or HyTrust appliance which is pretty good with this part.

Have you check on tasks & event logs to see when its being altered by someone else any chance. Where is your data center guru should have your AC/ and Power redundant all the way, so how you live with 70 VMs shutdown and restarted?

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Regards,

Stefan Nguyen
VMware vExpert 2009
iGeek Systems Inc.
VMware, Citrix, Microsoft Consultant

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