Thanks @scottalanmiller and @psx_defector

@sartre13776 said:

@IRJ If you have an Equalogic, SanHQ is an awesome tool when troubleshooting. You can check iops, latency, see if there are any TCP retransmits going on.

We paid a MSP to configure it. I created a ticket with them. Being able to prove it was the Equal Logic is huge, though.

@PSX_Defector said:

@IRJ said:

@PSX_Defector We are using a NEW Equal Logic SAN. We had an MSP install it and create datastores to our VM Environment. Is there a step that might have been missed?

Most likely.

Usually Equal Logic means iSCSI, you could be running into collisions on the network or the SAN isn't able to keep up with the chatter.

I would still migrate the VM over to another host, possibly the template as well. The host you are working with might be the problem, eliminate that. Otherwise I would get with Dell about performance on that thing. IOPS would explain this pretty well.

Ok I finally got somewhere. When I loaded the VM template to the Host's local Storage. It worked like expected. There is a problem with the Equal Logic.

Thanks everyone!

@ajstringham No,I tried other templates and it also hangs up when building a new VM from scratch.

@ajstringham said:

@Minion-Queen said:

I know historically the NTG team has been playing AOE for years!

Classic but overrated IMO.

I love AOK. Sorry but its not overrated

@PSX_Defector We are using a NEW Equal Logic SAN. We had an MSP install it and create datastores to our VM Environment. Is there a step that might have been missed?

It doesnt seem to be related to a particular host, The template, Optical VM, and the new VM I am trying to create are on 3 separate hosts.

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Either that or IT may not be for you.

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That's what I thought. Thanks for confirming.

Before I started working where I am at, Most GPOs were created in Default Domain Policy. Slowly, I have been creating separate GPOs that logically make sense. Once I have these created, I have been removing them from the Default Domain Policy.

Are there any settings that need to stay in Default Domain Policy?

@Josh Thanks.

@RobQ

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Prime is great. I love it

@scottalanmiller It doesnt appear to be. Memory and processor usage on the Optical VM is very low. Also the Optical VM is on a different host and data store. It seems like it shouldn't be affected.

@scottalanmiller So some people think they are Linux admins when they are not

@scottalanmiller especially if you are using Windows 8.1. Server Manager is great. There is no need to use remote desktop or VNC for most tasks.

http://www.classicshell.net/

You can deploy this using PDQ. If you have a basic subscription, all you need to do is download

On Friday, one of our application servers (Optical) froze up. I rebooted the server which took a while, but everything came back up. The same thing happened again this morning and a third time this afternoon.

I believe I know what is causing the issue. All 3 times, I was trying to either create or convert a VM template. Converting or Creating a VM usually takes 5-15 minutes to complete. On Friday, I let it run for about an hour and it was stuck slowly going from like 48%-53%. I finally gave up and canceled it. Mainly because our Optical Server went down. Once I canceled the template task in VM Optical started working fine again.

The same thing happened again this morning. After I canceled the Template task. Optical started working again. I was able to recreate this a 3rd time to make sure the template jobs were causing the problem

Troubleshooting:
I tried both templates, both caused issues
I also tried creating a VM from scratch, this also caused a hang-up.

@ajstringham DId you just find these articles? I noticed they were posted in 2012.