VMWARE message: CPU failure?

[IccoBlog]

On a HP360GL6, we are using ESX 4 vsphere. Just a testing server for this moment but....

We have got this message (see attachment) this morning. a hard reboot solved the first need but what does this call tells us? We are thinking of a cpu failure.

If this is so, we can take action for replace the CPU.

If somebody know this message, please be so kind share your knowledge.

[kooltechies]

This may not relate to CPU this looks more like a bad memory , if you look in the bottom of screen it says MCE ( Machine Check Excepion) in CPU7 bank8 ( Bank -8 will be hosting your memory). I will advise you to put this machine under some severe memory stress by running memio or any other tool that you can use.

Thanks,

Samir

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[IccoBlog]

Can you give us a name of a usefull Memory StressTest Application? We are googling for it but can't find the right one.

On which level works the tool?

[kooltechies]

Try this ..

http://www.memtest.org/

Thanks,

Samir

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[J1mbo]

I woud look in the event log accessible through the HP BIOS - it will likely list the issue i.e. bad DIMM etc.

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