For the rest of the questions:
I have a total of 9 machines on the direct attached storage, one of
which is usually powered down, the rest of which are normally running.
Of those that are normally running, my WSUS server is down, and a
seldom-used machine is now down.
For some unknown reason one of my PFYs, as part of *his* research on
this problem was doing a conversion of the WSUS machine to our other
ESX box. However, stopping that didn't help.
[r...@esx2 sus]# vmkfstools -P
/vmfs/volumes/esx2\:storage1/sus/sus_1-flat.vmdk
Could not get volume attributes (rv -1)
Error: Connection timed out
However, I've rebooted the TS server (which is on the SAN) and CPU
utilization plunged. It came up just fine, but I'm still unable to
boot the two VMs that are are on the DAS.
This begins to smell like a hardware issue, or at least an issue with
the DAS for this machine.
Kurt
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 15:12, Klint Price <[email protected]> wrote:
> 90% utilization after downing two servers? Is that 90% on a single core, or
> 90% total?
>
> How many other VMs do you have on the LUN(s) that are still powered on? Any
> more than the two referenced below?
>
> What is the output / top CPU utilization pct for the processes found by
> running:
>
> #top (from SSH)
>
> (exit with CTRL-C)
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:04 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot
>
> In line...
>
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 14:40, Klint Price <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 1) I wouldn't expect a power on to work until you can get this command to
>> work:
>>
>> vmkfstools -P /vmfs/volumes/esx2\:storage1/sus/sus.vmdk
>>
>> The host needs to be able to read from the disk.
>
> Reasonable.
>
>> 2) Do you have an additional non-production server on the same LUN that can
>> be powered off, with an attempt to restart your current down server? Result?
>> Will the 2nd non-production server power back on?
>
> Yes. It's acting in a similar way - I logged in, and it shut down
> fine, but it won't power up now. Nor will a machine that I had powered
>
>> 3) All things DR considered, can you schedule a reboot tonight? If so, you
>> may
>> want to consider re-seating the HBA and drives, clear dust (which can cause
>> cards
>> to overheat), and reboot.
>
> Gotcha.
>
> One last thing for the moment: I've been looking at the performance
> chart for this box, and see that CPU utilization is hovering around
> 90%. I've got one VM that seems pretty far out of line from its normal
> CPU utilization (our Win2k TS server), and another that's a bit higher
> than normal (our Win2k3 file/print server).
>
> I'm thinking of kicking the one person using the TS server off and
> rebooting, and seeing what that does to the situation, before downing
> the other machine.
>
> Kurt
>
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