Like mentioned earlier, ESX would psod in case of PFs or cpu locks but wont restart. Need say, that none of the agents in ESXi would restart the server itself, which could makes us shift the view...
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Like mentioned earlier, ESX would psod in case of PFs or cpu locks but wont restart. Need say, that none of the agents in ESXi would restart the server itself, which could makes us shift the view to the hardware itself excluding the intrusion of a person hard resetting the server. Check in the bios/management software for any alerts of Temperature, memory failed modules et al. Also, in vmkernel logs [messages in ESXi 4.1], check for "Booted successfully." which is the start time of the kernel. Again, if the server is bought down by hard methods, or hardware faults by bios, it cant be logged in vmkernel.