ERROR: ESX3.5 Pool Crashes when 'Cloning to Templates' via VirtualCenter ??? Anybody else get these errors ???

[AlexanderCapald]

ERROR: ESX3.5 Pool Crashes when 'Cloning to Templates' via VirtualCenter ??? Anybody else get these errors ???

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This keeps happening when i attempt to clone a virtual machine to a template either directly to a esx server or to the pool, my setup is below.

VirtualCenter v2.5.0 build 103682

Windows Standard Server R2 2003 32bit

ESX Pool v3.5.0 build esx-3.5.0_update2-110268

3x Tyan TX48 Servers

Motherboard: S4882

Storage Adapter: LSI MegaRAID SCSI 320-0X (530) Raid 1

2x 16TB NAS

Open-E v5.0

3ware 9650

ISCSI LUNS for Storing Virtual Hard Disks

[riker82]

Did you never run Memtest on those servers?

[AlexanderCapald]

No i hav'nt as it can clone a Windows Server 2003 vm into a template but fails when i choose a Windows XP Professional vm.

[rajeshdesh]

Hi,

I have tried the same scenario with and without resource pool. In both the cases, the Cloning to Template went through without any PSOD / BSOD. The configuration details of my setup are as,

Hardware: IBM Server xSeries 346

Processor: Intel Xeon 3 GHz

VI Client Version: 2.5.0 Build: 119801

VMware ESX Version 3.5.0 Build: 140688

VMware VC Server 2.5.0 Build: 119598

VM: Windows XP Professional - 32bit

[AlexanderCapald]

problem solved-

as it was the fact that vmware is built on linux which only gets tested on older releases of motherboard bios's, so i downgraded them and all is working fine, with vc, ha and drs.