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nicko82
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Windows 2003 R2 Std Hangs on Splash Screen with 2vCPU's

Just wondering if anyone else has this problem.

I have a Windows 2003 R2 Standard template specs are: 1 vCPU, 1536MB Memory, 30GB virtual disk

I deploy a new VM and customise it (sysprep) everything works fine until I modify the number of vCPU to 2vCPU's

I insure that Windows detects and installs the new CPU and ACPI multiprocessor is displayed in device manager under computer.

I can't figure out why it takes so long for the VM to start up, it sits on the splash screen for at least 5 mins, if i drop it backdown to 1vCPU it starts up OK again within a 1 minute.

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weinstein5
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How many vms are running on the ESX host this Vm is running on amd what type of host is it? It might be an issue with scheduling the 2 vcpus -

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nicko82
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Hi,

I thought that might be the problem, however today, I checked this one particular VM and the host it was sitting on had 13 VM's, total vCPU count on host for all VM's including this one is 17 vCPU's

With 8 physical cores in the host that about 2 vCPU per core, however I have seen this strange behavior on host scheduling less vCPU's

All 3 hosts are IBM HS21XM 2x 3.0GHz QaudCore (Intel Xeon E5450) Procs and 32GB Memory.

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kjb007
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The problem may still be from the HAL in this case. I would try to go into device manager, and try to set the HAL back to uni, and then restart, and then go back and change to multi again.

-KjB

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