[BlueOnyx:18232] Re: BX VM on VMWare repeatedly crashing

[Richard Morgan :: Morgan Web]

Hi, thanks for your help. 

 

As just mentioned there’s no way to access anything by console or SSH.  The
recent outage shows all the memory being used, but almost no network
activity.  CPU is also low.

 

I’ll take a good look at the WP sites to see their admins are looking after
them properly.  I’ll also try and increase the memory.

 

Quick question though, there are Windows servers running on the same host.
Could their activity be affecting other VMs?  I’m not very familiar with VM
architecture. 

 

Thanks, Richard

 

From: blueonyx-bounces at mail.blueonyx.it
[mailto:blueonyx-bounces at mail.blueonyx.it] On Behalf Of Wisja.net Computers
Sent: 24 August 2015 10:07
To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List
Subject: [BlueOnyx:18229] Re: BX VM on VMWare repeatedly crashing

 

Hi Richard, 

We have had a similar situation, about 1,5 years back. Back then the file
xmlrpc.php was getting hammered, so many new requests where made that the
4GB (at that time) simply wasn't enough. 
Nowdays its most of the time bad plugins or Wordpress sites not being up to
date (and being exploited). My servers all have 16GB now, and i've never run
out off memory again. 
When it hangs, what is the memory usage and CPU at that time? Can you still
login to the box with SSH when it happens? 

Last 1,5 years we have had no problems with 5208R on ESXi, so that should
not be the problem. 

Wisja 

On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 08:45:22 +0000, Dirk Estenfeld wrote 
> Richard, 
>   
> Yes definitively yes. 
> We are running several BX (5106R – 5209R) on vmware. We are using vmware
5.5 and use presets for centos 64bit (32bit on 5106R). And we have no
problems at all. 
>   
> Maybe you can have an eye on the console. Maybe you can see something
while systems reboots. 
>   
> Best regards, 
> Dirk 
> 
> 
> blackpoint GmbH – Friedberger Straße 106 – 61118 Bad Vilbel 
> 
> 
>   
> 
> Von: blueonyx-bounces at mail.blueonyx.it
[mailto:blueonyx-bounces at mail.blueonyx.it] Im Auftrag von Richard Morgan ::
Morgan Web 
> Gesendet: Montag, 24. August 2015 09:48 
> An: 'BlueOnyx General Mailing List' <blueonyx at mail.blueonyx.it> 
> Betreff: [BlueOnyx:18227] BX VM on VMWare repeatedly crashing 
>   
> Hi. We’ve got a virtual server on VMWare ESXi which crashes about every
two days. 
>   
> It has 2Gb of memory, plenty of processor time, etc. All it does is run
about a dozen not-so-busy Wordpress sites.  There is nothing obvious in the
logs for web activity and nothing particularly notable in either messages
log or secure log. 
>   
> My question is what can I do to find out what is happening?  I look at
logs for a clue each time it is restarted but keep coming up with nothing.
Is a BX VM usually fine on VMWare ESXi? 
>   
> Thanks for the help. Richard 



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