Hi,
I have hundreds of VM's running windows(2000 and 2003) in my virtual infrastructure. Often the VM's get problem authenticating to Domain and error states that "The domain <Domain name> is not available".
Furter drilling down into problem i found that Microsoft has address this problem as "TCP offload issue" and what happens is IPsec tries to establish a secure connection to the domain before my network adapter initialize and problem occurs. So i logged in as a local administrator and disabled IPsec service and gave restart to machine and then logged into the domain, everything works fine.
I really hate this to do daily for 10 to 20 machines. Is there any permanent fix for this?
My Environment : Esx server 3.0.3, 3.5, Windows 2000, Windows 2003 (Happens in both win2000 and 2003)
Thanks in Advance!