esxi 5, s.v00 fatal error 8

[cylent77]

well this is a doozy.

my esxi version 5 server has been running for 350 days without me getting near it.

today, out of the blue and without warning the HD light came on horribly.

i plugged in a monitor and rebooted.

and this error shows itself to me

Error Loading /s.v00 Fatal Error: 8 (Device Error)

talk about unexpected.

of course my my virtual machines that are on it are now dead.

is there a solution or a re-install of esxi is necessary???

[Anjani_Kumar]

There are multiple thread with the same issue. And unfortunately you have to rebuild your esxi server. That is the only resolution.

VMware KB: ESXi fails to boot with error: Error Loading /s.v00 Fatal Error: 8 (Device Error)

[cylent77]

Talk about how sad this is. Even more disturbing is you pointing out the fact that there's more of this problem circulating...

What is the cause though?

[Anjani_Kumar]

Well thats an technical thing and can corrupt or stop responding and unmanageable too.

so cant blame it . Coz can be many like missing files unsupported or corrupted device and in some case the old firmware is the reason too. as you stated its not rebooted from around 1 year almost so probably old firmware can be the reason too.

[cylent77]

The fact that it's not rebooted or shutdown in 1 year is something to brag about. Also, the server has no Internet access... So it has no ways of getting files in and out.  How could a firmware corrupt as you say?

I tend to point my hand at my cheapo hard drives I believe that may be it.