Most of the time when we see that here, it's because the VMWare Tools on the Windows guest are in the process of updating or installing. Our experience, contrary to what might be expected, has been that the install doesn't complete in one fell swoop, but seems to dribble out over a number of restarts. It's taken up to a week before a guest settles down and restarts with the more typical speed.
Plus, even with "seasoned" guests, the problem will still occurs when VMWare patches, including but not limited to, VMTools patches, are applied to the EXS hosts. ________________________________ From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 8:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Virtual servers taking a long time to restart Does anyone else have any issues with odd VMWare ESX 3.5 virtual systems taking a long time to restart? I have a lot of problems (seem to becoming more frequent) with machines that sit on the "starting Windows" screen for a long time (up to half an hour), or some that even have to be manually reset. Usually on the reset they come up quick and nice. These are mostly Server 2003 and odd Server 2008 machines running on ESX 3.5 with an IBM SAN. TIA, JRR -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." http://raythestray.blogspot.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
