Guest Eric Guzman Posted September 12, 2008 Posted September 12, 2008 I have a Windows 2008 Server Ent. 64bit w/ Hyper-V and all latest updates. Currently we are only running 1 Guest OS. Server Specs: Dell PowerEdge 2950 16GB of Memory RAID 5 w/ 6 x 146GB drives at 15RPM (SAS) 4 Broadcom NICS teamed to make 1 virtual Created one Virtual Network in Hyper-V for my Guest that points to 1 physical NIC out of the 4 that I teamed. Team is configured in a Smart Load balancing configuration w/ failover. 60GB OS Partition for Windows 2008 and the remainder space is for Guest machines. Host freezes up about once a day and I need to physically shut it down to make it functional again. Event logs don't help much, but then again I'm not to familiar with Windows 2008. I will be checking with hardware vendor and running a hardware diagnostic, but would like some direction as to what could be causing the issue. thanks.
Guest Bill Grant Posted September 13, 2008 Posted September 13, 2008 Re: Windows 2008 Server w/ Hyper-V Freezes up daily "Eric Guzman" <EricGuzman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:8631C63C-3C6E-4797-A412-AECE62BA613C@microsoft.com... > I have a Windows 2008 Server Ent. 64bit w/ Hyper-V and all latest updates. > Currently we are only running 1 Guest OS. > > Server Specs: > Dell PowerEdge 2950 > 16GB of Memory > RAID 5 w/ 6 x 146GB drives at 15RPM (SAS) > 4 Broadcom NICS teamed to make 1 virtual > Created one Virtual Network in Hyper-V for my Guest that points to 1 > physical NIC out of the 4 that I teamed. > Team is configured in a Smart Load balancing configuration w/ failover. > > 60GB OS Partition for Windows 2008 and the remainder space is for Guest > machines. > > Host freezes up about once a day and I need to physically shut it down to > make it functional again. Event logs don't help much, but then again I'm > not > to familiar with Windows 2008. I will be checking with hardware vendor > and > running a hardware diagnostic, but would like some direction as to what > could > be causing the issue. > > thanks. The first thing I would do is try it without NIC teaming. I have seen several postings in the Hyper-V forums about problems running a virtual network linked to a team. Teaming software is taking a while to catch up with the demands of Hyper-V. If you go to the forum http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/winserverhyperv/threads/ and search on "NIC teaming" you will see lots of discussions.
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