VMware ESXi 5.5.0 hanging while booting

fq13 · ‎02-11-2014

This is 5.5.0 build 1331820 hanging on "nfsclient loaded successfully". The host is part of a ESX cluster and was running fine until after we had to rebuild vCenter server. All other hosts and everything else in the cluster is working fine. Has anyone seen this issue? I tried letting it sit for 20 minutes, then cold booted again and still the same.

This is on an HP ProLiant.

Any ideas will be appreciated.

f10 · ‎02-11-2014

If you press ALT + F12 at this console screen do you see any errors?

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fq13 · ‎02-12-2014

We did some troubleshooting and the issue boiled down to being a problem in our iSCSI network. Apparently ESXi attempts to discover iSCSI devices on bootup and if the iSCSI network is flaky, the bootup takes over 30 minutes.