You virtualized (P2v'd) your server. Sometimes it does not always work correctly or you can encounter problems. If the problem is with your VM you can do the following.
1. Delete problem VM. Rerun P2V if you have not already destroyed original server. 2. Check settings such as HAL to make sure it is correct. Also make sure people are not on server when performing P2V since open files can cause problems. 3. Set new VM with proper settings such as vCPU's, Memory, VMware Tools, etc. We have seen P2V's have problems. No harm in doing again. Just shut down original server after P2V. Original Message: ----------------- From: Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 17:41:45 +0000 To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Pool consumption (was: Re: Virtualized server issue...) Explain? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 -----Original Message----- From: Mike Semon [mailto:mse...@ont.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 6:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Pool consumption (was: Re: Virtualized server issue...) You virtualized or P2v'd your box. If not done correctly can create errors you are seeing. -----Original Message----- From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 4:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Pool consumption (was: Re: Virtualized server issue...) What does that have to do with this? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 -----Original Message----- From: mse...@ont.com [mailto:mse...@ont.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 4:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Pool consumption (was: Re: Virtualized server issue...) Start with 1 vCPU then check your CPU and memory on your VM. Having multiple cpu's can actually hurt performance of a VM unless it truely needs multiple CPU's. We start with 1 vCPU on all of our VM's. Also check your HAL if you are trying to run a uniprocessor HAL on multiprocessor machine Mike Original Message: ----------------- From: Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:45:59 -0700 To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Pool consumption (was: Re: Virtualized server issue...) Have added the reg entry, and am examining poolmon output. The server needed to be rebooted again today, so the reg entry should now be active. I note that in perfmon Pool Paged Allocs for this machine had slammed to the ceiling, although nothing else seemed to be Poolmon is proving problematic - I've examined the top two memory eaters, and am either getting too many or no hits. At 10:12 this morning, I took this reading, and a few minutes later had to reboot the box. Memory: 1047456K Avail: 220432K PageFlts: 47 InRam Krnl: 2912K P:281220K Commit: 570560K Limit:3053000K Peak: 580612K Pool N:35804K P:282140K System pool information Tag Type Allocs Frees Diff Bytes Per Alloc Se Paged 13914251 ( 0) 1770996 ( 0) 12143255 243309424 ( 0) 20 MmSt Paged 755490 ( 9) 753741 ( 9) 1749 15544008 ( 0) 8887 Memory: 1047456K Avail: 229772K PageFlts: 66 InRam Krnl: 2912K P:281000K Commit: 570396K Limit:3053000K Peak: 580612K Pool N:35776K P:281920K System pool information Tag Type Allocs Frees Diff Bytes Per Alloc MmCm Nonp 1090 ( 0) 15 ( 0) 1075 7864864 ( 0) 7316 LSwi Nonp 1 ( 0) 0 ( 0) 1 2576384 ( 0) 2576384 As the winner and new champeen, Se is at least an order of magnitude larger than its closes competitor. However, the Se tag is in lots of files, so I prefixed it in the findstr command with 'h' per the KB article. That narrowed it considerably, but what's left pretty much looks to be MSFT files, and there are still 21 files. MsSt is simply not found anywhere, nor is MmCm,. though LSwi shows in srv.sys - I note that the Se tag is also found in the latter. Later today, perhaps after standard business hours, I'll reenable Active Protection for VIPRE on this machine, and copy a lot of files to it. If that's the issue, it should start spiking pretty quickly. On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 15:29, Brian Desmond <br...@briandesmond.com> wrote: > Kurt- > > Can you add the http://support.microsoft.com/kb/244139 CrashOnCtrlScroll registry value and reboot? This will allow you to generate a dump next time this happens (the hang, specifically) by pressing the /right/ Ctrl key and Scroll Lock twice. > > Also, Poolmon can help tremendously here too for logging. > > Thanks, > Brian Desmond > br...@briandesmond.com > > c - 312.731.3132 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 5:00 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Virtualized server issue... > > All, > > Over the weekend we virtualized our file/print server, and it seemed > to go well. Host is a Dell machine running ESX 3.5 update 2. > > The physical machine has an Intel HT processor and 1gbyte of RAM. I > gave the VM 2 procs and 2gbytes of RAM, just for good measure. > > Both machines were talking to our LeftHand SAN, on a separate physical > LAN, but today I had to reboot the VM, then a couple of hours later > shut it down and revert to the physical machine after it stopped > responding. > > The logs were indicating lack of server memory - specifically, these > were being emitted to my syslog server: > > 2009-03-30 14:05:12 User.Notice home-01 Mar 30 14:05:12 > home-01 MSWinEventLog 1 System 13892 Mon Mar 30 14:05:08 2009 > 2020 Srv Unknown User N/A Error HOME-01 None > 0000: 00 00 04 00 01 00 54 00 ....... 0008: 00 00 00 00 e4 07 00 c0 > ........ 0010: 00 00 00 00 9a 00 00 c0 ........ 0018: 00 00 00 > 00 00 00 00 00 ........ 0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ > 0028: ae 04 00 00 d0 02 70 00 ....... The server was unable to > allocate from the system paged pool because the pool was empty. > > Then this, as I tried to log in to shut it down: > > 2009-03-30 14:09:39 User.Notice zet-home-01 Mar 30 > 14:09:39 zet-home-01 MSWinEventLog 1 Application 13935 Mon > Mar 30 14:09:39 2009 1512 Userenv SYSTEM User > Error ZET-HOME-01 None Windows cannot unload your > registry file. The memory used by the registry has not been freed. > This is often caused by services running as a user account, try > configuring the services to run in either the LocalService or > NetworkService account. If this problem persists, contact your > administrator. DETAIL - Insufficient system resources exist to > complete the requested service. 30 > > > and couldn't log in - I had to use psshutdown to make it go. > > I was starting to troubleshoot the paged pool issue, but didn't get > far enough into it before it required kick, and I reverted to the > physical box. > > Anyone have any ideas what might have been the problem, or where I can > start to look for clues? > > > 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/> ~ -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web LIVE - Free email based on Microsoft(r) Exchange technology - http://link.mail2web.com/LIVE ~ 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/> ~ -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com What can On Demand Business Solutions do for you? http://link.mail2web.com/Business/SharePoint ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
