Win 2008 Server Locks up

[Dante_D_]

With running ESX 3.5 Update 4, we are experencing consistent lock ups with Windows 2008 Server R2. Is there a patch or a setting that needs to be configured in order for the OS to run smoothly? It has 4GB of memory and 2CPU dedicated to the vm.

Thanks,

D

[RParker]

R2 is not support on ESX 3.5. Windows 2008 pre-R2 is.

Although the lockup is the OS, not the VM. So this must an OS problem, not a Virtual one. I would start looking at the apps you installed in the OS.

[NWI-IT]

We're also running ESX3.5U4 and have run into the same sorts of issues. Specifically, our VMs won't boot properly after we install Symantec Endpoint Protection on a 2008R2 box. We'd just found that R2 isn't supported on U4 a day or two ago, so are working on developing a plan to migrate to vSphere 4.

[Dante_D_]

We have a total of 7 servers 5 of them are on Update 5 and 2 are on Update 4.