All,
Over the weekend we virtualized our file/print server, and it seemed
to go well. Host is a Dell machine running ESX 3.5 update 2.
The physical machine has an Intel HT processor and 1gbyte of RAM. I
gave the VM 2 procs and 2gbytes of RAM, just for good measure.
Both machines were talking to our LeftHand SAN, on a separate physical
LAN, but today I had to reboot the VM, then a couple of hours later
shut it down and revert to the physical machine after it stopped
responding.
The logs were indicating lack of server memory - specifically, these
were being emitted to my syslog server:
2009-03-30 14:05:12 User.Notice home-01 Mar 30 14:05:12
home-01 MSWinEventLog 1 System 13892 Mon Mar 30 14:05:08 2009
2020 Srv Unknown User N/A Error HOME-01 None
0000: 00 00 04 00 01 00 54 00 ....... 0008: 00 00 00 00 e4 07 00 c0
........ 0010: 00 00 00 00 9a 00 00 c0 ........ 0018: 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 ........ 0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0028: ae 04 00 00 d0 02 70 00 ....... The server was unable to
allocate from the system paged pool because the pool was empty.
Then this, as I tried to log in to shut it down:
2009-03-30 14:09:39 User.Notice zet-home-01 Mar 30
14:09:39 zet-home-01 MSWinEventLog 1 Application 13935 Mon
Mar 30 14:09:39 2009 1512 Userenv SYSTEM User
Error ZET-HOME-01 None Windows cannot unload your
registry file. The memory used by the registry has not been freed.
This is often caused by services running as a user account, try
configuring the services to run in either the LocalService or
NetworkService account. If this problem persists, contact your
administrator. DETAIL - Insufficient system resources exist to
complete the requested service. 30
and couldn't log in - I had to use psshutdown to make it go.
I was starting to troubleshoot the paged pool issue, but didn't get
far enough into it before it required kick, and I reverted to the
physical box.
Anyone have any ideas what might have been the problem, or where I can
start to look for clues?
Kurt
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