Random PSOD

[ZippityZippity]

     Greetings All, I keep getting random psod once every 7-14 days, othertimes during random times like rebooting.

I know it is hardware related but I am no expert at reading the dump files.  At first I thought it was related to some PCI-E ssds that I am playing around with, they hold no important material.  I thought I had pinpointed which one and removed it but it has not resolved anything.

I have attached 3 coredump files, vmkernel.log and a screenshot of the PSOD

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

[dekoshal]

Have a look at this :

An ESXi host fails with a purple diagnostic screen with the error: Recursive panic on same CPU (2036...

For more detailed review follow below KB article to extract log file from zdump located in /var/core and upload it here

Extracting the log file after an ESX or ESXi host fails with a purple screen error

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Best Regards,

Deepak Koshal

CNE|CLA|CWMA|VCP4|VCP5|CCAH

[ZippityZippity]

I did upload the dumps, they have already been converted they are the .1 .2 .3 files

[ZippityZippity]

Well if I am reading the vmkernel logs and vmkernel dumps correctly it looks like its being caused by my Intel 10gbps nic if anyone can read the dumps and confirm?

[dekoshal]

Are you running VM's on SSD storage?

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[ZippityZippity]

Yes I am running a couple of VMs on SSD storage, is that a bad idea?

[dekoshal]

I am looking at this forum and looks like they had issue with running VM on the SSD. Logs looks similar to one that you are getting.  Have a look.

https://www.developpez.net/forums/d1682564/systemes/virtualisation/vmware/sos-crashs-esxi-repetition...

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[Finikiez]

What HW do you use?

Crash dumps can be extracted only by VMware support. Others can only read logs and text from a dump file.

Looking on the screenshot attech, it looks as a CPU issue. Can you read logs on a management controller of your server (iLO, BMC or whatever and check for any HW erros)? Also if you can, run HW tests for several hours.