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I've got an ESXi 4.1 Free box that has two VMs that take over an hour to process the reboot requests. When the reboot request is sent, it sits on 'Processing' for a long time (30 minutes), and then jumps all the way up to 95% and hangs. If I leave everything alone eventually they reboot.

Both of the VMs are running CentOS 5.5 and have vmware tools installed. We notice there is a problem because the guests stop responding to Nagios via SSH, Ping, and the Nagios client.

I can reboot the entire VMWare box, but the other VMs are working OK. Is there anything I can check? Since it's the Free version of 4.1, the RCLI program is crippled, so I can't even issue a hard stop.

Server Specs

  • Dell PowerEdge R300
  • 4 Core Xeon @ 2.5ghz
  • 89gb of 500gb HD free
  • 12gb RAM

Guest Specs

  • 1 CPU
  • 3gb RAM
  • 32bit
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Is this 32 or 64 bit CentOS? What is the ESXi box (type, #CPU Cores, RAM), what's the VM config (#vCPU's, RAM, no and type of NIC), what storage subsystem. Some possible ideas on things to look at in this VMware communities thread communities.vmware.com/thread/275561 , possibly unrelated but worth a look. – Helvick Dec 21 '10 at 0:16
Thanks for the link, but once they have actually booted the VMs run fine. It just the power related functions via ESXi that take a long time to complete. – dragonmantank Dec 21 '10 at 1:29
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