Hello together,
I hope someone has a hint for me, how to proceed and fix this issue.
General Information ESX host:
ESX 2.5.1 build version 14182
8 GB RAM
3 NICs
2 MP Xen Procs (IBM x246)
SCSI Storage enclosure 1 TB
General Information VM:
Windows 2003 Standard VM SP2
1,5 GB RAM
1 vCPU
2 vmdk files attached
Fileserver Service
Issue:
The VM will freeze as soon as a user is opening an explorer window or diskmgmt.mmc. The full VM gets unresponsive in the VC Console and from the network.
I couldn't find any errors in the logs on the ESX host, but I could find some errors in the VM log (tail output from the vmware.log)
Sep 02 10:59:35: mks| MKS IPC closed the connection with thread mks (0x81a5950)
Sep 02 10:59:35: mks| MKS server disconnecting thread.
Sep 02 11:05:03: ide0:0| ATAPI_CDROM: readv for /dev/cdrom failed: Input/output error
Sep 02 11:05:03: vmx| DISK: DISK/CDROM timeout of 37.845 seconds on ide0:0 (ok)
Sep 02 11:05:41: ide0:0| ATAPI_CDROM: readv for /dev/cdrom failed: Input/output error
Sep 02 11:05:41: vmx| DISK: DISK/CDROM timeout of 38.259 seconds on ide0:0 (ok)
Sep 02 11:11:17: ide0:0| ATAPI_CDROM: readv for /dev/cdrom failed: Input/output error
Sep 02 11:11:17: vmx| DISK: DISK/CDROM timeout of 37.869 seconds on ide0:0 (ok)
Sep 02 11:11:55: ide0:0| ATAPI_CDROM: readv for /dev/cdrom failed: Input/output error
Sep 02 11:11:55: vmx| DISK: DISK/CDROM timeout of 37.614 seconds on ide0:0 (ok)
So any hint about the further investigation would be helpful and any tip to solve the issue more than welcome.
Thanks for your comments
Carsten