john-henri Posted February 27, 2012 Report post Posted February 27, 2012 Hi, I'm setting up a new VmWare-environment and have run into some problems. The new environment is as follows: Three ESXi5 servers (only one online atm.) Two Cisco Nexus switches A large Netapp system for VmWare datastores The system is beeing set up in an existing AD with a 2008R2SP1 DC. (The AD is much bigger, with approx 700 DC's stretching across Europe and parts of Asia.) If I build a 2008R2SP1 client in VmWare everything is ok until I give it a static IP. Then it hangs at "Applying computer settings" for about 40 minutes. Some networktraffic has been sniffed, and it looks like the client doesn't understand which DC it should log on to. The result is that it starts at the "beginning" and tries to access DC's it isn't allowed to (the network is firewalled between countries). This finally ends in a timeout resulting that the server doesn't get it's GPOs. If you get tired of waiting for 40 minutes you can disconnect the virtual nic in VmWare, that forces an inistant timeout. If I build a 2008SP2 client I do not get the problem. Infact, no other operating systems beside 2008R2 has this behaviour. If I build a physical machine with 2008R2 I do not get this problem. I just upgraded a 2008SP2 server to 2008R2SP1, and after the upgrade it instantly hangs at "Applying computer settings" when rebooted. I found a similar problem as mine at http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/Forefrontedgesetup/thread/7fdd23fb-bf85-45f7-b428-69a73f8474fc but the solution, to run 2008SP2 doesn't really seem like a solution to me. I have excluded the Nexus switches by creating a new virtual switch in VmWare that I connected to a built in Intel-nic in the ESXi-server. That nic is then connected directly to our regular Cisco-stack. So, what next? I've been banging my head at this for more than three days, so any suggestion is appreciated. Best regards/ John-Henri Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
john-henri Posted February 28, 2012 Report post Posted February 28, 2012 If I build a 2008R2SP1 client in VmWare everything is ok until I give it a static IP. I answer my self here. I haven't found a solution but a quick and dirty workaround (just the way I like them), but it bugs me a bit that I didn't think of it earlier. If I build a virtual machine with two vNICs and give one of them a static IP and the other a dynamic IP the server works as it should. No errors in event viewer and GPO's are processed as they should. Don't ask me why it works. It just does. Best Regards/ John-Henri Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...