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wannesd
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ESXi hanging / lost network connectivity

Very often, ESXi will lose network connectivity (mostly when trying to reset a VM or something).

As I had passthrough of gpu enabled, I could not get to the console to check what's going on.

I disabled gpu passthrough, and as soon as the box lost network connectivity again, I went to the host console.

It appears ESXi itself is frozen, and does not respond to the keyboard at all. No errors, nothing.

Any ideas?

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jsch91
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Can you take a look at the vmkernel.log during the timeframe when it froze?

Do you get a purple screen on your ESXi host?

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