I have a Domino Server built for a Notes QA environment for testing database builds before they go to production. It is running ona VMWare server at the current version with the current VMWare tools. There are currenly nine other servers on this VM server, which is a HP Proliant DL585. CPU usage is minimal and memory is 12Gb of utilitzation out of 16 Gb. My QA server takes 2 hours to reboot on this VMWare server, it hangs at both “Applying Computer Settings” screens; before and after signing into the server. The server rebooted fine before we installed Domino Server 8.0.2. We also had the same issue trying to run Domino Server 7.0.2. Any suggestions or help is appreciated!
Subject: VMware Server, ESX or ESXi?
I’m guessing the latter. If a serve hangs like this in VMware Server it is almost always to do with hard disk thrashing.
Is the DC it is connecting to also on the same host? Is it RAID5?
FYI, if your hardware permits you’d be much happier on ESXi with a two RAID10 datastore setup. Put the DC on one “datastore” and Domino on another.
Subject: Domino and VMWare
We are running the current ESX version and not ESXi. The DC that it’s connecting to is not on the same host, it’s a separate box. This box has two SAN drives; a C: drive that’s 20 Gb and an E: drive that’s 80 Gb. C: is for software installs and E: is for storage. This box is performing this way and I don’t even have any users hitting the box yet.
Subject: Just for giggles…
Try removing it from the Domain and see if that helps.
Subject: Giggles didn’t work either!
Removing it from the domain didn’t work either. I removed, restarted the server and it is still not up yet, it’s going on 50 minutes now stuck at “Applying Computer Setting”.
Subject: Services starting
Is the Domino service set to auto-start ? If so try putting it to manual Also check the Windows event log for any other services which are taking too long to start
Subject: Domino Service
Yes the Domino Service is set to start automatically, all of our Domino servers are configured that way. We do that so if they happen to go down and come back up Domino is running. Once this server comes back up, I’ll change it to manual start, restart the server and see what happens. I’m game for anything right now!
Subject: Service Autostart
We have the same problem on some of our servers too, but haven’t found a solution.
To bring up your server, reboot it in safe mode, and set Domino Server Service to Manual Start. Reboot again, and start Domino manually.
Subject: Giggles didn’t work either (2)
It took exactly an hour for it to get to the server sign in. Now it’s stuck at “applying computer settings” again after the sign in. Looking at the VM client performance for the server, something is using all 4 Gb of memory since it restarted, the disks are doing nothing at all!
Subject: A few things to try
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Set the Network Location Awareness (NLA) Service service to manual or disabled.
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Is APC Powerchute installed (i doubt it as this is a VM but you never know) there are know issues with version 7 of APCC PC.
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Remove the NIC and re-add it (I’ve had servers that have moved ESX hosts do this before)
Subject: any solution
I’m wondering if you found any solution to this.