Thanks. I'm working on permission for this now, and will have to notify a buncha people as well.
Kurt On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 15:39, Klint Price <[email protected]> wrote: > Remember to power off all guests, and put in maintenance mode in case you > need to reboot several times. You may also want to shut off auto power-on so > you can bring them back online one at a time. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Klint Price [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:38 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot > > Ok, a 2950 has dual core Xeons. Don't worry about the 90% on Proc 0 as your > average load is coming in around 60%. > > Let me know the results of your reboot process. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:24 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot > > Dual proc, dual core. > > Proc 0 = 90.72% avg > Proc 1 = 50.18% avg > Proc 2 = 49.49% avg > Proc 4 = 49.74% avg > > Total is 59.74% avg > > But it's been higher than that all the time I've been troubleshooting > this problem. > > 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 >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
