2003 unexpected shutdown

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Steve Copley

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Hello support,

We have a Windows Server 2003 x64 system that at seemingly random intevals
(anywhere from 5 to 10 hours apart) reaches 100% CPU usage and locks up. The
system is running in a virtual environment (Citrix XenServer) with another
Windows Server 2003 guest that have no problem at the time of the incident.

There are no logs in the virtual host to suggest a problem, aside from a
restart taking place which must be manually initiated, the Windows Server
does not restart on its own.

The system was configured with 4x vCPUs and 2gb RAM. The host has 4 CPUs
(Intel Xeon 3Ghz) and 4Gb RAM.

The only entry in the Windows Event Log that suggests a problem is the one
event to say "unexpected server shutdown", suggesting something hardware
related - though nothing reported in the host log, and the second virtual
guest is unaffected.

We have since dropped the server down to 2 vCPUs. While the server remained
running over the weekend, we have just had a repeat failure.

We've not had a problem with this host in the past, and is isolated to this
one virtual guest. Can anyone suggest a way to increase the logging to
determine what may be causing the crash?

Many thanks,

Steve
 
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