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.....
I would start by looking at some performance metrics for your host and VMs.
If anything like production workloads, consider that any version older than ESXi 6.5 is no longer supported or updated.
Before sharing the performance metrics/ log please look into the attached picture ...i cant get it correctly...what does it mean?
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.
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
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...