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2 Replies Last post: Nov 6, 2009 6:59 AM by nathanw  

vCentre server reboot issues posted: Nov 5, 2009 8:38 AM

Click to view gedi78's profile Novice 12 posts since
Mar 24, 2009

Following an upgrade from 3.5 to vSphere our vCentre server is taking over 15 mins to reboot. It seems to be solid enough when booted but was wondering if anyone else has had this issue?

While connected to the DRAC I can see it sitting at "applying security settings" for about 15 minutes - We have more than the minimum recomended RAM.

Any comments welcome.

Thanks

Re: vCentre server reboot issues

1. Nov 5, 2009 9:23 AM in response to: gedi78
Click to view dnetz's profile Hot Shot 148 posts since
Dec 5, 2008
Is the server part of an Active Directory? This part of the boot is usually when group policies are applied any they might take any number of minutes to finish depending on what you put in them. Does the eventlog say anything about what's going on during this time? What OS and service pack are you running? Any antivirus or firewall software enabled? Shaky network connection to the domain controllers?

This Microsoft KB might be of interest too: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278316

Hope it helps!

Re: vCentre server reboot issues

2. Nov 6, 2009 6:59 AM in response to: gedi78
Click to view nathanw's profile Enthusiast 28 posts since
Oct 13, 2005
HI Gedi,

I have just posted on performance issues with vCenter myself.

I have discovered that the tomcat service "VMware Virtualcenter Management Webservices" seems to eat resources, http://communities.vmware.com/thread/241102?tstart=0

Try stopping this service and see if it improves, you can set the startup type to manual so it can be started if required.

This obviously stops web access and the performance overview page on performance tab will not work but performance details are still available.

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