So,
I've been runing VMware Workstation 12.x (currently 12.5) in order to run an ESXi / vSphere (CSA, vRO, vRA, etc.) test bed.
My installed guests are two ESXi 6 hosts, one VCSA 6P2, and one Windows 2008R2 server (AD DC).
The host is a Windows 10 x64 build 14393 ["anniversary ed"] system based on top of a x79 Intel chipset (Asus Rampage IV Black Ed.) and an Intel i7-4930k CPU w/ 64GB of RAM.
Memory burn-in tests does not show any issues; storage is all SSD.
Issue: The system will spontaneously crash and reboot, but ONLY when running Workstation!
Since VCSA is not support directly on Workstation, I've done burn-in tests without that running (just the ESXi hosts and the AD DC), and it still explodes.
I have attached miniDumps to SocialCast on VMware's internal site, but I'm wondering if anyone else has seen this behavior?
Additional Information (if driver incompatibility is suspected):
Storage Controllers:
Intel® X79 chipset :
2 x SATA 6Gb/s port(s), gray
4 x SATA 3Gb/s port(s), black
Support Raid 0, 1, 5, 10
ASMedia® ASM1061 controller : *2
2 x eSATA 6Gb/s port(s), red
4 x SATA 6Gb/s port(s), gray
LAN:
Intel® 82579V
USB:
ASMedia 104x USB 3.0 controller (plus the x79 chipset ones)
Any thoughts would be greatly appricated. Otherwise, I'm going to have to install ESXi directly on this host, and maybe use a NUC or something for VCSA...
