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DocLarge
Premium Member
2013-Aug-9 7:39 pm
2008 R2 Enterprise Server VMs Shutdown Hourly (WTF???)I've seen this issue spoken of for almost 2yrs with no resolution. For some reason, whether I have my server on a UPS or not, ESXi VCenter 5.0/5.1, my 2008 R2 Server vm's keep shutting down after about an hour or so; I've never had this behavior occur with my 2003 R2 Servers...
Has anyone run into this? The logs don't appear to show anything significant either...
Thanks.
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beachintechThere's sand in my tool bag Premium Member join:2008-01-06 |
What version/licensing are you running on eSXi? |
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AsherN Premium Member join:2010-08-23 Thornhill, ON |
to DocLarge
We need a lot more info on your configs. I run over 100 2008R2 servers over 2 dozen 5.1 hosts and have never had one do that. |
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exocet_cmWriting Premium Member join:2003-03-23 Brooklyn, NY |
to DocLarge
By some odd chance is the sleep option enabled in power management within Windows itself? |
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tomdlgns
Premium Member
2013-Aug-10 4:22 pm
the default power save options for a server OS should be off, so i doubt it is that. |
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exocet_cmWriting Premium Member join:2003-03-23 Brooklyn, NY 1 edit |
said by tomdlgns:the default power save options for a server OS should be off, so i doubt it is that. Should be, unless somebody deployed Power Options Plan in a GPO and applied it to the server group. Might explain the hourly on-the-hour shutdown to the Server 2008 VMs since Power Options don't apply to pre-Win7/2k8 OSes Power Plan applies to Vista and later (Power Options apply to Windows XP and earlier). |
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tomdlgns
Premium Member
2013-Aug-10 4:37 pm
said by exocet_cm:said by tomdlgns:the default power save options for a server OS should be off, so i doubt it is that. Should be, unless somebody deployed Power Options in a GPO and applied it to the server group. Might explain the hourly on-the-hour shutdown to the Server 2008 VMs since Power Options don't apply to pre-Win7/2k8 OSes. that would be funny. |
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to DocLarge
The vms wouldn't care if the esx host is on a ups or not. My guess is that you are running unactivated copies of Windows server. » social.technet.microsoft ··· n-hourlyOnly applies to server 2k8 not 2k3. |
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I haven't seen that to be true with 2k8 or 2k8 R2. I have deployed production physical 2k8 servers and accidentally left them unactivated for months beyond the sell by date with no ill effects besides a nag message when logging in to the console. I also have some 2k8 R2 VMs running on systems that run Deep Freeze and get reimaged nightly. They complain til the cows come home that they're not activated, but they work just fine. |
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to SimbaTLK1
Turns out the issue had to do with NTP Once I set the NTP service on the ESXi host(s), the issue went away and all is good. I have a few machines that haven't been activated and still work so being unactivated was never an issue fortunately... |
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AsherN Premium Member join:2010-08-23 Thornhill, ON |
AsherN
Premium Member
2013-Oct-22 6:19 am
I've had NTP not set on the host, and te only thing it would do is reset the guest time at boot. Never had a gest reboot because of time. on the host. |
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