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VMWARE SERVER POWERS OFF

Hello,

We have a VMWARE 4.x server on top of an ESX4.1update 1 and the domain controller (win2008R2) keeps powering off. The setting to turn the power back on in 2008 is ticked but the server does not auto power on. Any suggestions for the vmware config or 2008 tricks?
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Danny McDaniel

8/22/2022 - Mon
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Hello,

Your licence is still valid? a VM don't power off alone..

After that, we need more detail on your infrastructure, do you have juste 1 ESX ? Do you have a Vcenter ?
The way to auto power on a VM after a crash is call HA. Its only available on a cluster ESX with Vcenter.

You have an option in configuration/Startup option to specify the auto power on, but its just when your ESX boots up.
Danny McDaniel

that's not normal for a vm to power off.  can you tell from the windows logs if it's being shutdown for a reason?  

the only reason I can think of for ESX to do it is because of lack fo disk space on the datastore, but that's not normal behavior for that, either.

you can view the recent tasks and events for the vm in the vsphere client, too.  see if there's a reason there.
Carlo-Giuliani

To repeat what dnam66 wrote, you really need to find out why the VM is shutting down.  

Look at the guest Windows system event log, at the VMWare tasks and events.
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Danny McDaniel

if that works then it's your host that is rebooting not the VM.