Wednesday, 21 August 2013

Windows 7 VM sleep

I had a problem with some Windows 7 VM's that was stopping people connecting by RDP until the mouse or keyboard was used in a vSphere console. I found alerts similar to this below in vCenter.





Windows 7 has power saving modes enabled by default out of the box and it turned out the VM's were going to sleep.  I don't find this useful in a virtualised environment.  I decided the best thing for my environment was to set some power saving in a group policy like below.  This keeps the VM's from sleeping.


 

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