I have been trying to use Vmware server for a couple of years now and am about to throw in the towel and re-invest in new hardware to get stable servers again so any help would be greatly appreciated.At first I was running Vmware Server V1 on Windows 2003 Enterprise 4Gb ram and a 6 drive raid 5 and the system would either crash and reboot at random or completely power down with nothing showing in the windows system log. The system was completely unstable and would crash 1 - 2 times a week and then run for a few weeks and then crash again so I formated the system and re-installed the OS and upgraded to the latest Vmware Server V2 only to have the same results. I finally gave up and built a system with Centos5, all new hardware, 8 GB memory, downloaded and installed the latest Vmware Server V2 and I am getting the same results only it will be fine for 2 - 3 weeks and then crash for no reason. The frustrating part is I have only 2 virtual machines, 1 is an email and DNS server and the other is a DNS server and the email server handles maybe 5 - 10 emails a day and both are CentOS5 so it's not like they are getting a lot of traffic. This server does nothing else but run these 2 virtual machines and is still unstable, new hardware including memory, new OS, new Vmware server and back to square 1 with system crashes.
Any help would be appreciated, I am pretty much at the end of my rope here.
Thanks