asked on VMWare Virtual Machines in same folder
I was asked to troubleshoot an issue with two VMs running Windows 2012 that are hanging and freezing... The most glaring thing I see is for some reason who ever built these two nodes put them in the Same folder on the DataStore. Every other VM has it's own folder and is running optimally... so I am thinking that the root cause fs the Hung VMs is residing in the same folder. Am I correct?
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Dan Henery
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What is the purpose of each server and have you tried shutting one down and see if you still suffer from a performance issue.
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They are each a node of the same cluster, both use RDMs to connect to shared storage... I am not sure why they were built this way.. probably just a mistake... I have tried shutting one down and rebooting the other still some flakey issues. And depending on which one boots up first the other VM's vmx file does not display as being a Virtual machine file... I suspect they used one VM to Clone and created the other and just did it wrong.
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If they are using RDM's and in a WIndows cluster were the perennial reservation set the the RDM lun's on each host in the cluster the VM are in?
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OK, so as it turns out there was something flaky going on with the SAN Volumes for those RDMs. Also, someone in their divine wisdom thought it might be a good idea to attempt a repair installation of Windows on the Nodes which compounded the issue. Complete rebuild had to be performed.