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Good Day,

My Server vm keeps on freezing I have 3 other vm’s on that host without any issues. When it freezes there is nothing I can do except to right click and reset I had to do it like 10 times today before it worked.

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@josephfriling If you were able to fix it can you please share as what you did to fix the issue?

Kind regards

3 Spice ups
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Does it display a bluescreen or does it just freeze? How do you recover, push the reset button? Anything in the logs?

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Anything in the event logs?

Is the CPU maxed out?

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Don’t forget your vmware-tools version. Upgrade to the latest. I try to do this at least once a year. A few years back a Windows 2008R2 vm was behaving like this – all of a sudden after I had done that and the next monthly Windows update. Sure, vmware fixed it shortly afterwards.
More recently I had an AD server crash and fail to be able reboot. VMWare said it was holding some lock. Everything I tried with the VM short of rebooting the ESXi it was on was blocked. Raised a new AD to get back in business. Kept the old one VM around. A couple months later, I got around rebooted the ESXi it was on after doing a round of vmware updates. That cleared the lock and the vm was working for me again. Its gone now.

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Good Day,

There is no blue screen it just freeze and then no one can access the shared files as this is our file and AD server I have to right click on it and click on reset, when it boots up after the windows logo the screen is black for almost 2 minutes when I try to put in our password it freezes again I had to do this yesterday 10 times.

I am not able to see if the CPU is maxed out.

I restarted my server this morning and these are the logs I see in event viewer:

Event_Viewer.txt (12.5 KB)

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Can you ping this server while it is “inaccessible”

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If I remember correctly I can ping the server.

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Is there any other process in progress during the inaccessibility? Backup running, AV scans going on? database maintenance?

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You can check CPU usage via vmware by going to the VM and selecting the monitor tab, then advanced.

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Nothing else is running that I know off. CPU usage is running around 40%.
It did not freeze at all today.