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So how do I read the 600 MB crashdump ?
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is it a single file ?<br />
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check mini-dump which should be smaller than 40 Mb which can anlyze using online tools<br />
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<a href="http://www.osronline.com/page.cfm?name=Analyze" rel="ugc">http://www.osronline.com/page.cfm?name=Analyze</a><br />
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all the best
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is it a single file ?

check mini-dump which should be smaller than 40 Mb which can anlyze using online tools

http://www.osronline.com/page.cfm?name=Analyze [http://www.osronline.com/page.cfm?name=Analyze]

all the best

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Hi All,<br />
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i'm running WIndows Server 2008 R2 Non-SP1 with vCenter Server 5.5 Update 3d - 2016-04-14<br />
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in this directory <b>C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles<wbr />\NetworkSe<wbr />rvice\AppD<wbr />ata\Local\<wbr />CrashDumps<wbr /></b> I can see that there is lots of large files 600 MB+ with the name like <b>WmiPrvSE.exe.6292.dmp</b><br />
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So &nbsp;I wonder what's happening here ?
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Hi All,

i'm running WIndows Server 2008 R2 Non-SP1 with vCenter Server 5.5 Update 3d - 2016-04-14

in this directory C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\AppData\Local\CrashDumps I can see that there is lots of large files 600 MB+ with the name like WmiPrvSE.exe.6292.dmp

So  I wonder what's happening here ?

Windows VCenter creating Crashdump ?

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

VMware

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.