If that log file isn't being generated it seems like the JVM isn't starting up at all. The file you've attached seems to support this, it's saying the failure happened during startup of the JVM, though this appears to be from it trying to run the deployment registry jar so this is from this failure: INFO: Creating deployment registry veiw report failed with the following return code: 1 From the file: VM state:not at safepoint (not fully initialized) ... VM Arguments: java_command: O:\SAS\SASHome\deploymntreg\sas.tools.viewregistry.jar java_class_path (initial): O:\SAS\SASHome\deploymntreg\sas.tools.viewregistry.jar Launcher Type: SUN_STANDARD It seems like Java isn't able to reserve that Xmx size from the OS. Do you anything in your event viewer when the failure occurs? ... View more