Windows Server 2008 VM closing evening

I have a service request open with VMware on this point, but at the moment, it is a head scratcher, and I thought that I post here to see if anyone has any ideas.

I have a cluster ESXi 4 consisting of four blades Cisco UCS B250-M2, each with 12 processor cores and 384GB of RAM. They are connected through a 10 GB uplink to a Nexus 5 K, and the storage is fibre channel LUNS on an EMC NS-480.

We manage only about 150 VM of the consisting of a combination of 2008 and Windows Server 2003 servers.

What we noticed a few months ago who is pretty much every night, we would have a couple of Windows 2008 servers who would just stop and power back up. Not a BSOD or a stop, but an unexpected shutdown. As we continued to deploy virtual machines more the problem seems worse to where we would have 5-6 VM stop every night, sometimes twice a night. This is not always the same virtual machine, but he always seemed to be a few among a group of about 20 servers that kept do.

We studied about all aspects of the operating system thinking it had something to do with antivirus or updates Windows, kicking off in the night, but we went to the top of nothing after a week of exhaustive research.

As an idea, I decided to spend 10 VM Windows 2008 that have been constantly crashing to another cluster running ESXi 5. Once I did, the accidents stopped. The interesting thing is that the servers that I moved to ESXi5 has stopped crashing, but we also ceased to have accidents on the ESXi4 cluster.

I started to think that maybe we hit a capacity issue any. So last night I have deployed 10 test Windows 2008 to the ESXi4 cluster servers and waited. Of course, in the night, we had about 6 servers (including 2 new servers test) start to close again.

So now I'm trying to understand what it is in this environment that makes these Windows 2008 servers stops. It does not affect 2003 servers, only the servers from 2008, and not all, only some of them.

Can someone shed light on this or give me something to look for?

Good to know, I don't know the GSS VMware will be able to help on this.

I think that you cannot change the status of a response useful, but too bad.

Else, we can help you, just shout!

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