VMWare guest becomes unresponsive, stops logging, not dumping

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Issue

  • We have a server that stops responding, but nothing related is recorded in messages. When this occurs, our only option has been to reboot the server; attempting to gather a vmcore also fails. What other options are there?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8
  • VMWare guest

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