is that expected that system purple screen after a lun deletion?

[mssc97]

Hello all,

We have an ESX running with VMware ESX Server 3.5.0 build-82663 and encountered purple screen.

The problem seems to be caused by the deletepath of vmhba1:2:29 (on MSA storage), if so, is this an expected result of system crash as the OS is not on the deleted LUN.

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3:01:42:02.436 cpu2:1041)ScsiPath: 3389: DeletePath : adapter=vmhba1, channel=0, target=2, lun=29

[45m [33;1mVMware ESX Server [0m

Exception type 13 in world 1024:console @ 0x8ecbd9

frame=0x1402d78 ip=0x8ecbd9 cr2=0xbfff9ff4 cr3=0x13401000 cr4=0x6f0

es=0x4028 ds=0x1484028 fs=0x1000000 gs=0x0

eax=0xff00002a ebx=0x7a38a58 ecx=0x7a00df4 edx=0x7a38848

ebp=0x1402dd4 esi=0x7a38848 edi=0x7a030d8 err=0 eflags=0x14096

*0:1024/console 1:1126/vmm0:hqte 2:1026/idle2 3:1127/vmm1:hqte

4:1168/vmm1:vm_c 5:1174/vcpu-1:vm 6:1172/mks:vm_cl 7:1167/vmm0:vm_c

…

1:04:20:54.004 cpu6:1057)SCSI: 4473: Cannot find a path to device vmhba1:2:29 in a good state. Trying path vmhba1:2:29.

1:04:23:01.074 cpu5:1058)SCSI: 4473: Cannot find a path to device vmhba1:2:29 in a good state. Trying path vmhba2:4:29.

1:04:30:52.767 cpu5:1056)SCSI: 4473: Cannot find a path to device vmhba1:2:29 in a good state. Trying path vmhba1:2:29.

Thanks.

[Texiwill]

Hello,

We have an ESX running with VMware ESX Server 3.5.0 build-82663 and encountered purple screen.

The problem seems to be caused by the deletepath of vmhba1:2:29 (on MSA storage), if so, is this an expected result of system crash as the OS is not on the deleted LUN.

No. However was this path part of an extent? If so that could cause the problem. You should look at the system crash output to determine where the problem occurred.

Best regards,

Edward L. Haletky

VMware Communities User Moderator

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