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  • 1.  Automatic startup timing

    Posted Jun 04, 2013 09:49 AM

    We have 4 windows XP images on our server.

    They are all setup via the vCenter to start at 1200 second intervals(20 min)

    However when when we reboot the server we get the following

    Win1 starts 16:00

    Win2 starts 16:20

    Win3 starts 16:25

    Win4 starts 16:45

    As you can see WIn3 starts 5 minutes after Win2 despite it being configured exactly the same ans Win1 to Win4

    For the application we are using it for it is critical that we have the time gap between startup.

    Has anyone any ideas why it is doing this and how to get the intervals the same

    Tony



  • 2.  RE: Automatic startup timing

    Posted Jun 05, 2013 09:14 AM

    Are these VM's part of a vApp?



  • 3.  RE: Automatic startup timing

    Posted Jun 05, 2013 10:54 AM

    Hi,

    No just standard windows XP VM's



  • 4.  RE: Automatic startup timing

    Posted Jun 05, 2013 09:23 AM

    There is an option to start the next as soon as VMware Tools are responding, do you have that one checked?

    // Linjo



  • 5.  RE: Automatic startup timing

    Posted Jun 05, 2013 10:56 AM

    There is an option to start the next as soon as VMware Tools are responding, do you have that one checked?

    Hi Linjo,

    No they are all unchecked, the reason being we want to make sure that a windows XP machine has completed it's startup before the next one is started