All other VMs auto start but Win7 won't?

[JohnyBeGood]

Hi,

I've been searching online and here but could not figure out why windows 7 is the only one that does not want to start. It is configured as 2 startup priority and I have tried 1.

If I manually start it works without problem. Any ideas?

Here's end of vmware.log after it gets shut down:

2017-10-20T05:28:54.439Z| mks| I125: MKS PowerOff

2017-10-20T05:28:54.439Z| mks| I125: MKS thread is exiting

2017-10-20T05:28:54.439Z| vmx| I125: SVMotion_PowerOff: Not running Storage vMotion. Nothing to do

2017-10-20T05:28:54.439Z| vmx| I125: scsi0:0: numIOs = 0 numMergedIOs = 0 numSplitIOs = 0 ( 0.0%)

2017-10-20T05:28:54.439Z| vmx| I125: Closing disk 'scsi0:0'

2017-10-20T05:28:54.439Z| vmx| I125: SVMotion_DiskCloseCB: Closing disks in svmPhase 0. Not destroying mirror node.

2017-10-20T05:28:54.439Z| vmx| I125: DISKLIB-VMFS  : "/vmfs/volumes/59c20232-9fad620f-8e7c-0cc47a0c8c1c/Win7SP1Ultimate/Win7SP1Ultimate_0-flat.vmdk" : closed.

2017-10-20T05:28:54.465Z| vmx| I125: Vix: [68153 mainDispatch.c:1175]: VMAutomationPowerOff: Powering off.

2017-10-20T05:28:54.466Z| vmx| I125: WORKER: asyncOps=2 maxActiveOps=1 maxPending=0 maxCompleted=0

2017-10-20T05:28:54.542Z| vmx| I125: Vix: [68153 mainDispatch.c:4234]: VMAutomation_ReportPowerOpFinished: statevar=1, newAppState=1873, success=1 additionalError=0

2017-10-20T05:28:54.542Z| vmx| I125: Vix: [68153 mainDispatch.c:4253]: VMAutomation: Ignoring ReportPowerOpFinished because the VMX is shutting down.

2017-10-20T05:28:54.542Z| vmx| A100: ConfigDB: Setting cleanShutdown = "TRUE"

2017-10-20T05:28:54.545Z| vmx| I125: Vix: [68153 mainDispatch.c:4234]: VMAutomation_ReportPowerOpFinished: statevar=0, newAppState=1870, success=1 additionalError=0

2017-10-20T05:28:54.545Z| vmx| I125: Vix: [68153 mainDispatch.c:4253]: VMAutomation: Ignoring ReportPowerOpFinished because the VMX is shutting down.

2017-10-20T05:28:54.545Z| vmx| I125: Transitioned vmx/execState/val to poweredOff

2017-10-20T05:28:54.545Z| vmx| I125: Vigor_ClientRequestCb: failed to do op=3 on unregistered device 'Tools' (cmd=queryFields)

2017-10-20T05:28:54.545Z| vmx| I125: VMX idle exit

2017-10-20T05:28:54.621Z| vmx| I125: Vix: [68153 mainDispatch.c:834]: VMAutomation_LateShutdown()

2017-10-20T05:28:54.621Z| vmx| I125: Vix: [68153 mainDispatch.c:783]: VMAutomationCloseListenerSocket. Closing listener socket.

2017-10-20T05:28:54.623Z| vmx| I125: Flushing VMX VMDB connections

2017-10-20T05:28:54.623Z| vmx| I125: VigorTransport_ServerCloseClient: Closing transport C8E048B090 (err = 0)

2017-10-20T05:28:54.623Z| vmx| I125: VigorTransport_ServerDestroy: server destroyed.

2017-10-20T05:28:54.623Z| vmx| I125: VMX exit (0).

2017-10-20T05:28:54.623Z| vmx| I125: AIOMGR-S : stat o=2 r=6 w=0 i=0 br=98304 bw=0

2017-10-20T05:28:54.623Z| vmx| I125: AIOMGR-U : stat o=1 r=36 w=9 i=0 br=8936 bw=8604

2017-10-20T05:28:54.623Z| vmx| I125: OBJLIB-LIB: ObjLib cleanup done.

2017-10-20T05:28:54.623Z| vmx| W115: VMX has left the building: 0.

[admin]

Couldy you check below link.if it heslp you   to resolve  the problem

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc/GUID-5FE08AC7-4486-438...

if you found my answer to be useful, feel free to mark it as Helpful or Correct.

[JohnyBeGood]

Thanks for the reply!

I have auto startup already set up and others start except Windows 7.

In the link provided I've noticed this Screenshot

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc/images/GUID-AF61B83E-1...

And on my Free version of ESXi 6.5 I can't find it?

[admin]

check if VMware Authorization Service is not running or not . Service does it have Administrator rights?

[JohnyBeGod]

I don't have anything that relates to "VMware Authorization service" there VMware Tools 10.1.15

[admin]

Does this help?

http://thesolving.com/virtualization/how-to-configure-virtual-machines-auto-start-on-vmware-esxi/

if you found my answer to be useful, feel free to mark it as Helpful or Correct.

[JohnyBeGood]

Mine is free version and it looks like this https://derflounder.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/screen-shot-2016-11-22-at-10-58-04-am.png

I can't find any settings like you provider for windows application that was used to connect ESXi.