Our esri default print service and publishes print services are failing to make maps. ESRI provided the following solution. https://support.esri.com/en-us/knowledge-base/arcgis-sever-print-service-crash-when-vmware-12-5-is-in-000034161
The problem resides with the vmware tool. We were at vmware tool version 12.5 and we rolled it back to 12.4.5. This worked. However, the tool has been automatically updating.
There are two other solutions in the link above that are directly related to configuring the vmware tool.
Has anyone else had this problem and succesfully resolved it?