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writetooadnan
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On ESXI 5.5 VM response is dead slow

I have ESXI 5.5 installed on Dell power edge T310.I have problem since last 10 days that VM (Server 2012 R2 & Server 2003 R2) are running dead slow. when i start these VM it takes approximately 30 Mins to boot and give login window. Any suggestions please.....

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jburen
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I would start by looking at some performance metrics for your host and VMs.

 

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scott28tt
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If anything like production workloads, consider that any version older than ESXi 6.5 is no longer supported or updated.

 


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writetooadnan
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Before sharing the performance metrics/ log please look into the attached picture ...i cant get it correctly...what does it mean?

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nachogonzalez
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Hey, hope you are doing fine.
That means your local storage is crying for help 🤣

Basically, most of the enterprise level severs (almost all) have RAID configured on the local disks (to ensure data is still accessible if disks fail) but in case a disk fail the storage will trigger try to keep that data blocks available with degraded performance.
That being said it seems like your array is heavily degraded, please take a look at that the iLO/iDRAC and check if you can replace the damaged disks and rebuild the array.

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writetooadnan
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Thanks for the reply but i must say that i have only 2 hard drives are in this bay but message is for all the 4 slots. then how can you say that array is degraded and a normal message is also visible in front of each line.....please elaborate 

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jburen
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IMHO I don't think there is a hardware failure. What you are seeing is normal behavior. From a VMware KB article: state assert <-- Health state of sensor: deassert(green) indicates good health, otherwise assert(red, yellow).

So my suggestion stays the same: check performance metrics...

 

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