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Trouble about VM RDP Connection and VMWare tools

Hello

I have some trouble with VM with Windows 2012 R2 with RDP Connection, Powershell session etc. When i start VM - everything seems to be fine i can connect to VM via RDP and its write that VMTools are installed and running , but after some period of time ( sometimes 1 days , sometimes 2 weeks) i loose ability to connect to machine  and I receive information that VMWare tools are  Installed but not running . So from this point, i can only "hard reset" or shutdown VM which is very bad in my case (this is machine with sql databases ).

2 month ago I migrate this VM from another ESXi serwer (ESXi VMWare 5.5  build 2068190) to another ESXi Serwer (ESXi VMWare 5.5  build  9313066)

On old server this machine had too this problem but maybe 1 times per 3-4 month.

We use License:

VMware vSphere 5 Essentials

Here are some logs

2019-05-31T14:20:26.077Z| vmx| I120: GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox timed out.

2019-05-31T14:20:26.077Z| vmx| I120: Vix: [1897815 guestCommands.c:1924]: Error VIX_E_TOOLS_NOT_RUNNING in VMAutomationTranslateGuestRpcError(): VMware Tools are not running in the guest

2019-05-31T14:20:34.933Z| vcpu-0| I120: GuestMsg: Channel 0, Protocol error, state: 0

2019-05-31T14:20:34.933Z| vcpu-0| I120: GuestMsg: Cannot close channel 0: it is not opened

2019-05-31T14:20:36.347Z| vcpu-0| I120: GuestRpc: Channel 0, guest application toolbox.

2019-05-31T14:20:36.355Z| vcpu-0| I120: TOOLS autoupgrade protocol version 2

2019-05-31T14:20:36.355Z| vcpu-0| I120: Vix: [14392419 mainDispatch.c:3884]: VMAutomationReportPowerStateChange: Reporting power state change (opcode=2, err=0).

2019-05-31T14:20:36.358Z| vcpu-0| I120: TOOLS Received tools.set.version rpc call, version = 10249.

2019-05-31T14:20:36.358Z| vcpu-0| I120: ToolsSetVersionWork did nothing; new tools version (10249) matches old Tools version

2019-05-31T14:21:11.100Z| vmx| I120: GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox timed out.

2019-05-31T14:21:26.103Z| vmx| I120: GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox timed out.

2019-05-31T14:21:26.103Z| vmx| I120: GuestRpc: app toolbox's second ping timeout; assuming app is down

2019-05-31T14:21:26.108Z| vmx| I120: GuestRpc: Reinitializing Channel 0(toolbox)

2019-05-31T14:21:26.108Z| vmx| I120: GuestMsg: Channel 0, Cannot unpost because the previous post is already completed

2019-05-31T14:21:26.763Z| vmx| I120: Tools: Tools heartbeat timeout.

2019-05-31T14:24:26.115Z| vmx| I120: GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox timed out.

2019-05-31T14:24:26.115Z| vmx| I120: Vix: [1897815 guestCommands.c:1924]: Error VIX_E_TOOLS_NOT_RUNNING in VMAutomationTranslateGuestRpcError(): VMware Tools are not running in the guest

2019-05-31T14:25:36.255Z| mks| I120: SOCKET 16 (184) Creating VNC remote connection.

2019-05-31T14:28:23.828Z| mks| I120: SOCKET 17 (185) Creating VNC remote connection.

2019-05-31T14:28:51.939Z| mks| I120: SSL: syscall error 104: Connection reset by peer

2019-05-31T14:28:51.939Z| mks| I120: SOCKET 17 (185) recv error 104: Connection reset by peer

2019-05-31T14:28:51.939Z| mks| I120: SOCKET 17 (185) VNC Remote Disconnect.

2019-05-31T14:29:14.437Z| mks| I120: SSL: syscall error 104: Connection reset by peer

2019-05-31T14:29:14.437Z| mks| I120: SOCKET 16 (184) recv error 104: Connection reset by peer

2019-05-31T14:29:14.437Z| mks| I120: SOCKET 16 (184) VNC Remote Disconnect.

2019-05-31T14:29:17.133Z| mks| I120: SOCKET 18 (184) Creating VNC remote connection.

2019-05-31T14:56:56.076Z| mks| I120: SSL: syscall error 104: Connection reset by peer

2019-05-31T14:56:56.076Z| mks| I120: SOCKET 18 (184) recv error 104: Connection reset by peer

2019-05-31T14:56:56.076Z| mks| I120: SOCKET 18 (184) VNC Remote Disconnect.

Anyone can help with this Issue?

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dbalcaraz
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Hi,

This seems more a Guest issue than a VMware one...

Did you check in the Event Viewer errors related with that? I think that this will be direction to go...

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