They labeled all the cabling correctly in my house, BUT all the matching labeling for the cables at the terminal box was fully exposed to the elements and just written in sharpie. So at the terminal, all the labels are just blank.

Yeah. Unless I purposefully or accidentally mess something up, my VMs run great without interaction. But either way, I usually have to manually change something to create an unstable vm.

1. Check your host syslog (it’s available in the GUI) and it should give you an idea of why the VMs are hanging.

2. Have you considered a high availability cluster? It’s literally the tool that exists for what you want.

PBS is cool for like a disaster recovery scenario, but it shouldn’t be the tool you go to for frequently unstable VMs. That’d be a fabric bandaid at best, but leaning heavily to a liquid bandaid in practice.