My ESXi 4.0 box restarts randomly. Is there a way to tell why it's happening? Is there a log that would indicate if the box just abruptly lost power? Would it indicate that it had a fatal error but was able to reboot instead of get stuck at that purple screen?
Is there ever a need to reinstall ESXi? Could it be corrupt in some way?
I had issues a while back where I got a purple crash screen after the system had been powered up for a few hours. I think that issue has been solved now. Although the memory modules were physically fine (checked by memtest), they seem to be incompatible with the motherboard. After replacing them I haven't seen purple screen in weeks.
