ESXi 4.1 auto reboot, and core dump show on console screen

[stanleykwan]

Hi all expert,

I have experience these 2 days and the ESXi4.1 auto reboot 2 times.

also, one of the guest OS on 2nd Datastore (datastore2) also reboot

attach with the "/var/log/message" I capture, just wonder is the 2nd Hard Disk (Datastor2) problem or not.

Tonight I try to move all Guest OS from datastore2 to Datastore1, and check whether the root case is Hard Disk or not.

Did anyone have such experience?

Please help

[AlbertWT]

what's the RAID level ?

it could be also caused by defective hardware (eg. bad sector in HDD, PSU or iSCSI cable).

[stanleykwan]

Hi Albert,

in fact, that's not the production environment, just for my test and trial eval. system.

That's only 2 SATA harddisk with 2 datastores.

Today the ESXi4.1 also core dump, I attach the core dump screen shot here.

Anyone have this problem before?

[Dave_Mishchenko]

If ESXi was installed to HD and was a fresh 4.1 install (not an upgrade from 4.0) then a copy of the vmkernel log file will be kept here - /scratch/log/messages. You might want to look through it to see if anything is logged prior to the PSOD.




Dave

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