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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hi<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>The machine just crashed again and it’s been restarted. No, there is no chance of looking at the console... the machine doesn’t respond to anything – no console, no network, no ssh, etc. Glad to know VMWare is reliable so it’s definitely the server.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks, Richard<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> blueonyx-bounces@mail.blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-bounces@mail.blueonyx.it] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dirk Estenfeld<br><b>Sent:</b> 24 August 2015 09:45<br><b>To:</b> BlueOnyx General Mailing List<br><b>Subject:</b> [BlueOnyx:18228] Re: BX VM on VMWare repeatedly crashing<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Richard,<span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal> <span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Yes definitively yes.<span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.<span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal> <span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Maybe you can have an eye on the console. Maybe you can see something while systems reboots. <span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal> <span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE>Dirk<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=DE style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'><br>blackpoint GmbH – Friedberger Straße 106 – 61118 Bad Vilbel<br><br><br><br></span><span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=DE>Von:</span></b><span lang=DE> <a href="mailto:blueonyx-bounces@mail.blueonyx.it">blueonyx-bounces@mail.blueonyx.it</a> [<a href="mailto:blueonyx-bounces@mail.blueonyx.it">mailto:blueonyx-bounces@mail.blueonyx.it</a>] <b>Im Auftrag von </b>Richard Morgan :: Morgan Web<br><b>Gesendet:</b> Montag, 24. August 2015 09:48<br><b>An:</b> 'BlueOnyx General Mailing List' <<a href="mailto:blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it">blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it</a>><br><b>Betreff:</b> [BlueOnyx:18227] BX VM on VMWare repeatedly crashing<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi. We’ve got a virtual server on VMWare ESXi which crashes about every two days.<span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal> <span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.<span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal> <span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>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?<span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal> <span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for the help. Richard<span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>