Possible Memory Leak in Virtual Server Enviorment
Hi,
We are running a Blade Centre S Virtual Enviorment. We have 2 VMHosts and a Windows Server 2008 R2 Server to manage the vSpere Centre. We have a SBS 2008 Virtual machine and Windows 2008 server virtual machine. We Are using Backup Exec 2010 R2 installed on the Blade running Windows Server 2008 R2 (Media server), and agents running on SBS 2008 and on windows 2008 Server.
We have a full backup routine: daily, weekly, monthly. On the 30th of April at 1:00 am a backup started running, after 2.5 hours the one host which had the windows 2008 server virtual machine running on it became unresponsive and cpu usage was very high. When I got to site the next day (1 May) the backup was stil running but doing nothing and I could not cancel it. It was running well over 33 hours. normal backup time is 3.5 hours.
Is it possible that Backup exec could cause a virtual file server and its host to become unresponsive?
Thanks
Hi,
It happens with physical servers too...the forum has a number of these issues.
Unless you're limiting the resources your VM can use with ESX, it is very likely that a VM can use MORE than it's allocation of RAM/CPU etc and cause instability in the ESX infrastructure. We had this on a number of occassions before limiting the amount of RAM/CPU that could be used.
Maybe check that and see what the effect is.
Also, BE is capable of hanging itself sometimes, needing a full server restart rather than a services restart. this happens with physical or virtual servers...just make sure you are running the latest patches to cover yourself.
Thanks!
