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Not seen anything on our test suite as yet with 2008.<br />
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This is 2008, not 2008 R2 ?
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Not seen anything on our test suite as yet with 2008.

This is 2008, not 2008 R2 ?

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Only answers given... Both viable
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Hi,<br />
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we have a VM running Exchange 2010 on Server 2008. The July updates went on this morning and over the day the VM keeps freezing - no blue screen or reboot.<br />
We can connect to it via ESX console and its just frozen (at logon screen or with whatever we had open).<br />
Only solution is to reboot and then it's fine again for a few hours (no set time but 4 or 5 hours at most).<br />
Can't find anything in the event log. Server working fine and then just freezes.<br />
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VM been in place with no issues for 4 years or so.<br />
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We're pulling the updates back off it now but hoping someone else maybe seeing similar? Feels like it has to be the updates.
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Hi,

we have a VM running Exchange 2010 on Server 2008. The July updates went on this morning and over the day the VM keeps freezing - no blue screen or reboot.
We can connect to it via ESX console and its just frozen (at logon screen or with whatever we had open).
Only solution is to reboot and then it's fine again for a few hours (no set time but 4 or 5 hours at most).
Can't find anything in the event log. Server working fine and then just freezes.

VM been in place with no issues for 4 years or so.

We're pulling the updates back off it now but hoping someone else maybe seeing similar? Feels like it has to be the updates.

Server 2008 Standard  x64 on VMWare ESX freezing after July 2017 patch updates

Windows Updates

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.

Windows Server 2008

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.