topic Pink Screen of Death in ESXi Discussions

Pink Screen of Death

Calintz — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 05:34:50 GMT

Hello folks, one of my hosts just locked up and the kernel panic screen isn't very informative so I'm not sure where to start troubleshooting this as the iDRAC logs are clean... Can anyone make sense of this? This is running off a Dell M630.

Re: Pink Screen of Death

scott28tt — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 08:04:22 GMT

In your case, there are a few mentions of FCoE on screen.

Apply any BIOS/firmware updates, find out if there’s a new driver available for your FCoE adapter and install it.

Re: Pink Screen of Death

hussainbte — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 10:03:13 GMT

if you have support agreement open a ticket with VMware support.

Re: Pink Screen of Death

a_p_ — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 10:23:21 GMT

Welcome to the Community,

how did you update/patch the host to the latest build? Did you use Dell's custom image, or offline bundle (which one), and then apply the latest patches via Update Manager? Do you have any additional drivers installed which may also need to be updated?

In case you have Dell OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) installed on the host, please note that ESXi 6.7 U2, and later require at least version 9.3.1.

André

Re: Pink Screen of Death

NathanosBlightc — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 23:52:01 GMT

When this PSOD happened exactly? in what situation and after which state you encountered this problem? (for example after a special operation, like power-on a VM)