I really hope someone can help me with a serious problem I’m having with one of my ESXi servers. Everything will be running fine for a while, then without any trigger I can find, the server will lock up its storage device. Selecting the “devices” tab on the ESXi UI just sticks on a loading bar. Trying to ls -l on the machine itself from within /vmfs/volumes/ just hangs. Existing VMs amazingly continue to function, but any operations on them fail. Stop/Start/etc. The only way I’ve found to fix this issue is to reboot the entire machine. For reference, this is an Asus RS400-E8-PS2, and the only storage I have in there are 2 Ironwolf 125 NAS SSDs running directly connected, no RAID config or anything like that.
I realize the Asus server was only certified for ESXi 6, and I'm running 7u2, but the underlying components are certified, so I'm hoping to get some help anyways. I really wish it wasn’t an Asus, but that server got bought before I was with the company. We ran out of VM space so I bought a Dell 730, and decided to migrate to ESXi because I dislike VirtualBox, which is what they were running previously. Now I’m getting pressure from my boss about not buying the vSphere license if I can’t get this figured out which is really disappointing because I like vSphere so much more than VB.
