Windows 2008 Server w/ Hyper-V Freezes up daily

[Eric Guzman]

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.

 

[Bill Grant]

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.