I have a esxi 5.1 host that crashed. Can anyone determine the cause from my screenshot of the stop screen? Also, what tools are available with esxi and vsphere to troubleshoot host crashes? Thank you!
First of all, your 5.1 host is terribly outdated! You are running it at "update1" level. Why? Since then there were many patches, so grab the latest one (they are cumulative) and update ESXi to the latest level.
Second, in your PSOD I see "E1000". There was some problem with this NIC, this has been fixed later "update2" patch. So one more reason to update your ESXi-host to the latest level!
To investigate this issue:
First of all, your 5.1 host is terribly outdated! You are running it at "update1" level. Why? Since then there were many patches, so grab the latest one (they are cumulative) and update ESXi to the latest level.
Second, in your PSOD I see "E1000". There was some problem with this NIC, this has been fixed later "update2" patch. So one more reason to update your ESXi-host to the latest level!
Thanks, just what I wanted to see.
Thats the correct answer