The progress bar is where I see the delays as well. I've noticed it most on new guests I've just installed. I think the other responders have some good ideas, like the nics and various services not starting in a timely manner.
________________________________ From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 8:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Virtual servers taking a long time to restart It's almost all of my systems from time to time - mainly Citrix MPS4 and XenApp, and particularly SQL boxes, I seem to find. I may not have been clear enough - it's actually sticking on the Windows boot screen with the progress bar, rather than after that. The other responses here may give some good indicators - we are always shunting VMs around from host to host (well the DRS is), and we have recently done a lot of VMWare tools upgrades and VMWare host patching. I am noticing it very much on one box I have just built today though - sometimes it is taking so long it is resetting manually and going into the "Windows failed to start last time" screen, which is a bit annoying. 2009/9/24 <richardmccl...@aspca.org> What are these systems for? What do they do/run? We have a development VoIP system on a VM. If the phone controller system service is set to "Automatic", that service takes several minutes to start. If there is "a piece missing" necessary for starting this service, it can take like 45 minutes or more to finish booting (with that service finally not started). If you open a console for that server and re-boot, typically you'll see the light blue or gray MS background. The color splash panel will say "Applying computer settings", and remain like that until the services either start of time out. -- Richard D. McClary Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group ASPCA(r) James Rankin <kz2...@googlemail.com> wrote on 09/24/2009 08:24:27 AM: > Does anyone else have any issues with odd VMWare ESX 3.5 virtual > systems taking a long time to restart? I have a lot of problems > (seem to becoming more frequent) with machines that sit on the > "starting Windows" screen for a long time (up to half an hour), or > some that even have to be manually reset. Usually on the reset they > come up quick and nice. > > These are mostly Server 2003 and odd Server 2008 machines running on > ESX 3.5 with an IBM SAN. > > TIA, > > > > JRR > > -- > "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put > into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I > am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that > could provoke such a question." > > http://raythestray.blogspot.com > > -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." http://raythestray.blogspot.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
