Fresh ESXi 5.5 purple sceen

[Bart_Verbruggen]

My fresh installed ESXi 5.5 had a psod after 3 days.

Currently no load on ESX.

hardware IBM blade: 16 CPU + 256GB memory

Anyone has an idea why this happened?

Bart

[admin]

Hello,

The stack shows MCE problems, MCE is mostly hardware problems on the CPU. a software or driver cannot cause an MCE. please run a Hardware diagnostics on your CPU.

Thanks,
Avinash

[khaliqamar]

Did you use IBM iso image to install this ESXi?

[Paltelkalpesh]

Check Your Server hardware compatibility with VMware product.

[Bart_Verbruggen]

Hi VirtualRay,

I used indeed the latest version of the IBM ISO for ESXi 5.5.

[Bart_Verbruggen]

yes the IBM blade is on the HCL

[khaliqamar]

check this KB

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=200009...

[ramkrishna1]

Hi

Welcome to the communities.

please share log file if any .

Take care!

[lloydm618]

Your best bet is to open a support ticket. There are debugging tools the engineers use that can severely decrease the time that you spend trying to find the problem. I agree with the MCE errors, but there could be more than that. Also, make sure to export the core dump.

core dump is found here:

root@host: /var/core/vmkernel.dump

Also, if you don't export the core dump soon, it will get overwritten, and unless it keeps happening, it's useless. Make sure to also open a support ticket with IBM, as it could be a bad chip.

[Bart_Verbruggen]

The vmkernel.boot.usePCC option is not available in vCenter 5.5?