Hello,
I am working with Vcenter 6 standard, using vsphere version 6.70 build 147 92544 on a hypervisor VMware ESXi, 6.5.0, 10884925.
I have a windows 10 professional build 1903 installed as the guest operating system .
The problem is this guest machine machine takes 2 hours to boot.
There is nothing special with this virtual machine - 80 gig hard drive, one partition, drive C.
I did have some snapshots, but have deleted them.
I also cloned the machnie and same issue.
While booting, I can connect via network share to the 'C' drive (\\computername\c$)
Any suggestions on how to fix this issue?
Thanks!
Where is the vm stored, if its in a vmfs 6 datatore and you have a vmfs 5 datastore, there is a bug that just got fixed recently you could be running into.
The VM's storage is on a VMFS 6 datastore, and the VM itself is ESXi 6.5 and later (VM version 13) compatible.
Thanks!
Do they have snapshots?
They did, but I deleted them. It was happening with the snapshots, so I am trying without them.
Same issue. Continuously boots and never gets to windows logon screen. Just a black page with the dots turning in a circle (this used to be the hourglass on previous versions of windows)
Make sure that you have that VM backed up, change your SCSI controller to VMware PVSCSI [VMware tools] must be installed.
Open a case with Microsoft it's a must they can at least isolate if it's not a VMware issue or not, I have doubt around MS, have you installed any MS patches recently?