I have two Dell PowerEdge R805's in the Datacenter and about a month ago used VMWare update manager to upgrade them both to build 2135321.
One of the 2 hosts has had the following PSOD two times since the remediation.
VMware ESX Server 3i
Machine Check Exception: Unable to continue
cr2=0x251cc cr3=0xac8ea000 cr4=0x668
Frame=0x3c4fdc ip=0x62b3e5
Es=0xffffffff ds=0xffffffff fs=0xffffffff gs=0xffffffff
Eax=0xffffffff ebx=0xffffffff ecx=0xffffffff edx0xffffffff
Ebp=0x3c4fed4 esi=0xffffffff edi=0xffffffff err=-1 eflags=0xffffffff
0 : 5269/vmm1 : ZH-A *1 : 4243/vmm0 : ZH-A 2 : 4798/vmm0 : ZZ-A 3 : 3983/vmm0 : ZZ-S
4 : 4501/vmm0 : ZZ-E 5 : 4014/mks : Pass4 6 : 5260/vmm1 : ZZ-T 7 : 4505/vmm1 : ZZ-E
0x3c4fed4 : Panic+0x10 stack : 0x84ea58, 0x0, 0x0
0x3c4feec : MCE_HandleException+0x6b stack: 0x3c4ff58, 0x0, 0x248ebd8
0x3c4ff84: IDT_VMMIntOrMCE+0x7e stack: 0x2d, 0x82000000, 0x3af77d50
0x3c4ffd8: VMKCall+0x12c stack: 0c2d, 0c3af77d50, 0x82000000
0x3c4fffc: VMKVMMEnterVMKernel+0x8e stack: 0x0, 0x0, 0x0
VMK uptime: 10:09:16:19.271 TSC: 1794830457833848
10:09:16:19.269 cpu1:4243)MCE: 169 Machine Check Exception: General Status 0000000000000004
10:09:16:19.269 cpu1:4243)MCE: 193 Machine Check Exception: Bank 0, Status f600000000010015
10:09:16:19.269 cpu1:4243)MCE: 226: Machine Check Exception: Bank 0, Addr 0000f80001780000, Valid TRUE
Starting coredump to disk using slot 1 of 1… 987666665432110 Disk dump successful.
Waiting for debugger… (world 4243)
Debugger is listening on serial port …
Press Escape to enter local debugger
Is this a memory issue or should I wait till it happens again and get a serial cable plugged in to tget to the bottom of this issue? The most annoying part of this PSOD is that HA does not kick in and failover the VM's to my other host even though HA is technically fully functional.
