All,
I recently moved to ESXi in hope of curing a long time freeze-up issue with Server 2. Alas, the problem is worse with ESXi despite brand new hardware. I'm hard-rebooting the host (with the reset button) twice a day now instead of every week or two on Server 2.
My hardware config:
Despite the absence of the Core 2 Duo line from the HCL, I haven't found any posts yet that would lead me to believe I have a hardware problem. I'm wondering where to look next.
I'm running 2 Gentoo guests, 2 Centos guests, 1 Ubuntu guests, 2 XP guests and 1 W2K guest. Aside from the Ubuntu guest, all of them were converted over from bare metal (vastly differing hardware) to VMWare Server 1.0. They were then run under Server 2 for a time before being converted to my new ESXi host last week. None of the guest machines see very high utilization, they are mostly idle. The performance screens in VCenter indicate I'm not using much of the available resources.
Where do I go from here? Should I replace the hardware? Is there any chance one of the guests is using an op-code that the hypervisor is choking on? If so, how do I tell which guest is the culprit?
Any help would be appreciated...I'm at my wit's end.
I recently moved to ESXi in hope of curing a long time freeze-up issue with Server 2. Alas, the problem is worse with ESXi despite brand new hardware. I'm hard-rebooting the host (with the reset button) twice a day now instead of every week or two on Server 2.
My hardware config:
- Gigabyte EP45T-DS3R mainboard with the Intel ICH10R chipset
- genuine Intel e1000 nic: PRO/1000 MT Dual Port (I've disabled the on-board ethernet controllers)
- Core 2 Duo Quad Core
- 8GB of RAM
Despite the absence of the Core 2 Duo line from the HCL, I haven't found any posts yet that would lead me to believe I have a hardware problem. I'm wondering where to look next.
I'm running 2 Gentoo guests, 2 Centos guests, 1 Ubuntu guests, 2 XP guests and 1 W2K guest. Aside from the Ubuntu guest, all of them were converted over from bare metal (vastly differing hardware) to VMWare Server 1.0. They were then run under Server 2 for a time before being converted to my new ESXi host last week. None of the guest machines see very high utilization, they are mostly idle. The performance screens in VCenter indicate I'm not using much of the available resources.
Where do I go from here? Should I replace the hardware? Is there any chance one of the guests is using an op-code that the hypervisor is choking on? If so, how do I tell which guest is the culprit?
Any help would be appreciated...I'm at my wit's end.
