Our VMs are running on an IBM BladeCenter kitted out with 3 blades and cluster storage (RAID 5 config). No hardware issues. All other VMs which are using same resources are running fine and without any issues at all. It's just this Windows 2012 VM which is giving me intermittent problems. I might have to restore the VHDs files and bring the server up to date from the daily backups. ________________________________ From: listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com [listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com] on behalf of Susan Bradley [sbrad...@pacbell.net] Sent: 16 July 2015 18:22 To: ntsys...@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Windows Server 2012 keeps crashing intermittently
What nic cards and have you disabled RSS/TOE/VMQ on the parent nics? On 7/16/2015 7:29 AM, Pierre-Marie Camilleri wrote: Update: The server had been running for more than 12 hours without any issues. And then when I opened a command prompt to run Telnet for a second time in order to see whether our 2X Remote Application Server was able to access the Internet the server crashed with a BSOD with CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED and no memory dmp file was created. It seems that there is something wrong with the OS partition. Even when trying to copy a large file to the C: partition the server crashes. From: listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Richard Stovall Sent: 15 July 2015 22:08 To: ntsys...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ntsys...@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Windows Server 2012 keeps crashing intermittently What about his DriverView utility? Have you looked at the loaded drivers? There shouldn't be too much other than MS stuff on a VM. http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/driverview.html On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 3:35 PM, Pierre-Marie Camilleri <pmcamill...@laferla.com.mt<mailto:pmcamill...@laferla.com.mt>> wrote: The problem is that no dmp file is being generated when the BSOD occurs. ________________________________ From: listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com> [listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com>] on behalf of Susan Bradley [sbrad...@pacbell.net<mailto:sbrad...@pacbell.net>] Sent: 15 July 2015 19:06 To: ntsys...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ntsys...@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Windows Server 2012 keeps crashing intermittently http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html Used that? On 7/15/2015 10:00 AM, Pierre-Marie Camilleri wrote: Hi Peter. All I see in the BSOD is CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED but what that process is, I have no idea. The server is still running (6+ hrs). Hope it remains so during the night. ________________________________ From: listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com> [listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com>] on behalf of Boyles, Peter J {BIS} [peter.j.boy...@pepsico.com<mailto:peter.j.boy...@pepsico.com>] Sent: 15 July 2015 17:59 To: ntsys...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ntsys...@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Windows Server 2012 keeps crashing intermittently Depending on the process, disk writing may have stopped and no dump or event log entry created. Are there any clues on the STOP screen as to which process stopped? Peter Boyles BIS Engineering Analyst PepsiCo Inc. | Global End User Services | GEUS Deploy SM: Issues: GEUS DEVICE L2 SUPPORT Requests: MIGRATION AND DISTRIBUTION Office: (972) 963-6578 | E-Mail: peter.j.boy...@pepsico.com<mailto:peter.j.boy...@pepsico.com> From: listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Pierre-Marie Camilleri Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 10:10 AM To: ntsys...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ntsys...@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Windows Server 2012 keeps crashing intermittently Yes, because the Write debugging information is set to Automatic memory dump. ________________________________ From: listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com> [listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com>] on behalf of James Rankin [james.ran...@talosys.co.uk<mailto:james.ran...@talosys.co.uk>] Sent: 15 July 2015 16:49 To: ntsys...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ntsys...@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Windows Server 2012 keeps crashing intermittently Is the system configured to write a dump file? From: listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Pierre-Marie Camilleri Sent: 15 July 2015 15:45 To: ntsys...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ntsys...@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Windows Server 2012 keeps crashing intermittently Tried looking for a dmp file but found nothing which is strange. ________________________________ From: listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com> [listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com>] on behalf of Susan Bradley [sbrad...@pacbell.net<mailto:sbrad...@pacbell.net>] Sent: 15 July 2015 15:42 To: ntsys...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ntsys...@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Windows Server 2012 keeps crashing intermittently Is there a dmp file on the system and have you run it through nirsoft's bsod tool? On 7/15/2015 6:13 AM, Pierre-Marie Camilleri wrote: Hi Andrew Thanks for replying. It's Hyper 2008 R2 and the VM is Windows 2012 Standard Edition. When looking at the Event log I see reference to Kernel Power. But not very informative as to what is causing it. Sent from Samsung Mobile -------- Original message -------- From: "Andrew S. Baker" Date:15/07/2015 14:43 (GMT+01:00) To: ntsysadm Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Windows Server 2012 keeps crashing intermittently Is the host running Hyper-V 2012-R2 or 2008-R2? And is the VM running 2012 or 2012-R2? Any other event log messages? ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker<http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker> Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations & Information Security) for the SMB market… On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 6:44 AM, Pierre-Marie Camilleri <pmcamill...@laferla.com.mt<mailto:pmcamill...@laferla.com.mt>> wrote: Hi all Lately we have been experiencing a strange issue with one of our Windows servers. It keeps crashing intermittently with a BSOD reporting CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED. This seems to be a very generic error message and have tried researching it on the net to see what could be causing this. But no success. This Windows 2012 server is running as a VM under Hyper-V R2. I’ve excluded hardware issues because all our other VMs are working well without any issues at all. The only difference is that they are running Windows Server 2008 R2. I cannot understand why this is happening. Could it be that the OS has become corrupted due to a MS update? Has anyone encountered this before? Any further help on this would be appreciated. TIA Pierre
