Hello to everyone, i tried to open a support request, but it seems i can't, even if my supportwill expired on July.
Anyway, i have this problem, randomly.
It seems it can be something about the CPU, but i'm not sure it can be a hardware problem.
The version is the Dell 6.5u2 the machine is a Dell T440, pretty "new" but it worked well for 6 months.
Never patched or updated, it has just one running VM now , with low allocated resources.
I check with Idrac and i have no hardware failure, all seems ok.
Any help is appreciated.
TY in advance
Bring it fully up-to-date with patches and observe. If it's still crashing, you'll need to renew your support contract and open an SR. We don't analyze crash dumps here as that is what support is for.
PSOD stack matches with the following KB and it looks like a known issue
Yes, i found it googling and i tried to apply the solution, but i was not fully sure about it since i can read that missing heartbit at the beginning of the PSOD
what did you exactly search in KB?
Many thanks
Missing heartbeat is common in any PSOD screen, you have to compare the actual stack which starts in the middle of the screen
I found the following lines matching with the screenshot from KB and you run DELL server
LogFormatStringV@vmkernel#nover+0x9c stack: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
LogWarningWithPcpu@vmkernel#nover+0x40f stack: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
vmk_vLogNoLevel@vmkernel#nover+0x63 stack: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
vmk_LogNoLevel@vmkernel#nover+0x3e stack: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
CompletionBottomHalf@(vmw_ahci)#<None>+0x69b stack: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Also we can't test the solution if the workaround works or not when we cannot reproduce the issue.
Thank you daphnissov,
a question for everybody, how do you patch your esxi? using cli? web interface? vsphere?
Hey there,
I usually end up doing it via the CLI as I personally feel that is much more effortless.
Creating a basline and stuff is something I'd not choose unless I'm managing a huge enviornment.