Hey everyone! Hoping someone came across this before. Googling didn't help much. I might not be thinking correctly here.....
So I run EAXI 7 hosts in my home lab, and have been running into new VM builds corrupting. Windows 10 and windows server 2022 constantly has errors after first installation. It's always the same issues, BSOD or failed updates. The usual attempts at repairing the windows image fails. I'm completely out of ideas. I have another 13 windows 2022 servers running happily without issues. They update completely fine!
I thought maybe the ISOs were corrupted, so i downloaded new ones of each, no dice.
Anyone running into the same issues? This is happening on all of my 2 hosts running the same ESXI version. Photo of my lab for fun
Which version of 7 are you running? I'm aware of issues with the vmtools and 2022. I'd look at the VMs themselves - if you're using paravirtual driver that could be of issue - and it's not easy to fix. Update to the latest 7 vsphere, then your esxi hosts, then update the tools on the affected hosts in safe mode.
Another thing to check - if you can boot them into safe mode, its a virtual layer driver causing the hub bub.
This wouldn't be a hardware level thing cause you'd get exceptions or callbacks from vmware before the OS gets a chance to load and BSOD. Hope this helps.
Btw: where did you get your rack? I'd love that setup!
I'll check those out! Thx!
Here's a link to the rack I use SysRack