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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi, thanks for your help. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks, Richard<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";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>Wisja.net Computers<br><b>Sent:</b> 24 August 2015 10:07<br><b>To:</b> BlueOnyx General Mailing List<br><b>Subject:</b> [BlueOnyx:18229] 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 style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Hi Richard, <br><br>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. <br>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. <br>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? <br><br>Last 1,5 years we have had no problems with 5208R on ESXi, so that should not be the problem. <br><br>Wisja <br><br><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 08:45:22 +0000, Dirk Estenfeld wrote</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <br>> Richard, <br>> <br>> Yes definitively yes. <br>> 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. <br>> <br>> Maybe you can have an eye on the console. Maybe you can see something while systems reboots. <br>> <br>> Best regards, <br>> Dirk <br>> <br>> <br>> blackpoint GmbH – Friedberger Straße 106 – 61118 Bad Vilbel <br>> <br>> <br>> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><br>> <br>> <b>Von:</b> <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 <br>> <br>> Hi. We’ve got a virtual server on VMWare ESXi which crashes about every two days. <br>> <br>> 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. <br>> <br>> 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? <br>> <br>> Thanks for the help. Richard <br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>