ESXi 5 occassionally hangs at initializing power management

[EborComputing]

Hi All,

I came across this issue when playing with version 4.1 and it was never resolved. Now with version 5 it is also happening randomly on boot. It hangs at initializing power management and the progress bar is only about an inch or so long.

I came across articles for version 4 relating to issues with loading the megaraid_sas driver on startup when booting from USB and the solution was to modify the boot.cfg and add "ACPI=FALSE powerManagement=FALSE".

Would the solution be to only add the "powerManagement=FALSE" to the "kernalopt=" line in the boot.cfg?

Kind Regards,

Vlad

PS. Got some kernel logs re Initializing Power Management on successful boots with ACPI failures which I am not sure are related:

Note this is on a HP DL380 G6:

0:00:00:03.784 cpu0:2048)Initializing Power Management ...
0:00:00:03.787 cpu0:2048)Power: 2562: Intel Enhanced SpeedStep(R) detected on this system
ACPI Error (dsopcode-0718): Field [CDW3] at 96 exceeds Buffer [NULL] size 64 (bits)0:00:00:03.787 cpu0:2048) [20080926]
ACPI Error (psparse-0621): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_._OSC] (Node 0x41000163cc80)0:00:00:03.787 cpu0:2048), AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT

[Sanktuary]

same thing

Also a dl380 g6 

I goht this during an update

Must be something with the HP Server type

[EborComputing]

Yes. Not sure. Since I set the power regulator to OS Controlled in BIOS, I have not had it occur. Fingers crossed.

Also, Sanktuary, are you able to access your DVD-ROM from within the ESXi's service console (TSM)? What brand of drive is it?

I am having difficulty mounting mine.

See (http://communities.vmware.com/message/1999142#1999142) for my other post.

[Sanktuary]

I will Test it atm im fighting aganst Windows 8 Beta Server

Gesendet von meinem Windows Phone

[theplatform]

Just upgraded a DL380 G6 from 4.1U1 to 5.0U1 and had this happen.  Subsequent boot was fine.  Power regulator mode was already set to OS Control.  Only has happened on 1 out of 10 boxes so far.

Any permanant fix?  I'd hate to see this start happening on a regular or even semi-regular basis.

[EborComputing]

Apparently the ESXi 5 update 1 will fix issues with Windows 8.

Also, I raised a support issue with HP about not being able to mount the DVD-ROM and after replacing the drive with a newer one and still not working I asked them to confirm with their VMware team. A person from their VMware team pointed me to a HP specific version of ESXi 5 which includes HP specific drivers which got the DVD-ROM working.

As for hanging during start, it has not happened for 2 weeks. I stop the test machine each night and turn it on each morning without failure.

[theplatform]

that's nice!  But I am more worried about ESXi hanging on startup

more clues: it happens on reboot, but a cold boot allows it to boot fine into ESXI 5.0U1

[NJKwork]

Same problem here.  I am testing ESXi 5 U1 on an HP DL380 G6 in our lab and it hangs on the Intializing Power Management during a warm boot.  During a cold boot, it works fine.

I don't have "OS Controlled" option in my BIOS - perhaps I have too old of a firmware?  I tried "Maximum Power" but I get the same problem.

SB

[theplatform]

sounds like someone should open up a ticket w/ Vmware and report back here :smileygrin:

[rickardnobel]

Moved discussion from ESXi 4 to ESXi 5 forum.

Regards  /  Rickard

[BastiaanvanH]

I have the same issue on a BL460 G6. Any update on this issue ?

[theplatform]

I resolved this by updating all of the firmware on the server. *shrug*

[Laurent1966]

Did you run 64bit machines on your DL380 G6 running ESXi 4.1 U1?

I try with mine but it fails see treat:

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[EborComputing]

No, I only had XP x86 and 2003 x86 VMs

[Kanien]

I have the same issue.  I upgraded from 4.1U2 to 5 and had to cold boot to get past it.  Did anyone figure out a fix?