Purple Screen of death when installing a Guest on a DL 380 G6

[Elongin]

Hi Everyone,

I just retrieve a DL 380 G6 server, with some disks and RAM. I wanted to Install ESXI 6.5.0 on it (with a special edited image).

When installing ESXI, i've got no problem, it boot normally etc...
The problem appears when i'm installing a OS on a Guest (whatever, Ubuntu, Debian or Windows). It start the installation and freeze after that, showing me this "beautiful" PSOD.

I did a memtest86 but there is no error.

It doesn't came from the ESXI image but of the server itself, cause i tried with other OS (Proxmox, debian, ubuntu) and all of them have problems at the installation.

So the PSOD is my only way to solve all this problems.

Here is a OCR of the screen, and the screen itself in case of bad recognation.

Thank you in advance everybody !

Muare ES)(i 6.5.0 [Releasebuild-5310538 x86_64]

LINT1/NMI (motherboard nonmaskable interrupt), undiagnosed. This may be a hardware problem; please contact your hardware vendor

r04Ix8001003d cr241x430000f80000 cr341xdf622000 cr441x216c

*PCPUO:70231/fssA10-27-7

PCPU 0: SUUSUSSV

ode start: 0x41801c800000 VMK uptime: 0:04:07:18.265

0x438040002c60J0x41801c8ec931]PanicvPanicInt0vmkernelltnover+0x545 stack: 0x41801c8ec931

0x438040002d00J0x41801c8ec9bd]Panic_MoSave@vmkernelltnover+0x4d stack: 0x438040002d60

0x438040002d60J0x41801c8e9c8e]MMICheckLintAvmkernelltnover+0x19a stack: 0x0

0x438040002e20J0x41801c8e9d24MMI_Interrupt0vmkernelltnover+0x94 stack: 0x0

0x438040002ea0J0x41801c92bb111IDTMMIWork0vmkernelltnover+0x99 stack: 0x0

0x438040002f20:I0x41801c92cfa1]Int2_MMI0vmkernelltnover+0x19 stack: 0x418040000000

0x438040002f40J0x41801c93c044]gate_entry_Pvmkernelltnover+0x0 stack: 0x0

0x439152b9bc70:I0x41801c88aec2Power_ArchSetCStatePvmkernelltnover+0x106 stack: 0x7fffffffffffffff

0x439152b9bca0J0x41801cac44b3]CpuSchedIdleLoopInt@vmkernelltnover+0x39b stack: 0x1

0x439152b9bd10:[0x41801cac6d6a]CpuSchedDispatch0vmkernelltnover+0x114a stack: 0x410000000001

0x439152b9be40:[0x41801cac7fe2]CpuSchedWait0vmkernelltnover+0x27a stack: 0x100430372f20080

0x439152b9bec0J0x41801cac8350]CpuSchedTimedWaitInt@vmkernelltnover+0xa8 stack: 0x206300002001

0x439152b9bf30:[0x41801cac8546]CpuSched_EventQueueTimedWait0vmkernelltnover+0x36 stack: 0x430372f20080

0x439152b9bf50:[0x41801c8c949c]helpFunc0vmkernelltnover+0x564 stack: 0x430078ff3050

0x439152b9bfe0J0x41801cac8c95]CpuSched_StartWorldPvmkernelltnover+0x99 stack: 0x0

lase fs=0x0 gs=0x418040000000 Kgs=0x0

'020-07-28T13:47:27.5477 cpu4:66541)Logs are stored on non-persistent storage. Consult product documentation to configure a sy

log server or a scratch partition.

oredump to disk. Slot 1 of 1 on device naa.600508b1001037383941424344450a00:9.

DiskDump: FAILED: Timeout

No file configured to dump data.

No vsan object configured to dump data.

No port for remote debugger. —Escape— for local debugger.

[Nawals]

As logs said have motherboard issue. Have you check the logs from HP ILO if not please check it.

[a_p_]

Welcome to the Community,

I assume that you know that the latest supported ESXi version for this hardware is ESXi 5.5U3!?

Anyway, you may explain "I wanted to Install ESXI 6.5.0 on it (with a special edited image)", i.e. what base image did you use, and what exactly did you modify?

André

[NathanosBlightc]

First of all you should be aware of the compatible versions of the ESXi for your server DL380 G6 (attached screen)

Then it seems you install it on a SD memory, because it prompts for storing logs on a persistent storage in PSOD, and also I think you didn't configure disk coredump for the ESXi host

[Elongin]

Already done but there's nothing very interesting in them...

I saw this part yes, but it's not very accurate

Here is the logs of the day i had the PSOD (since this day, i tried other OS, but had similar logs)

[Elongin]

Hi, and thanks, hope it will help me !

I know it, but there is a custom ISO of ESXI 6.5 that is working with many other peoples, downloaded from here : https://www.claud-computing.net/esx-on-hp-g6-g7-server-psod-fix/

But like said before, i don't think it's a software problem, cause i can't even install a simple Debian without a crash

[Elongin]

I Know this, this is why i installed a custom image of ESXI from https://www.claud-computing.net/esx-on-hp-g6-g7-server-psod-fix/

Installed it on a RAID 5 of SAS Disk. But yes i didn't configured disk coredump..

May i try to reinstall ESXI 6.5 with disk coredump and show here the result after a crash ?

[NathanosBlightc]

Whatever you do, it's not a recommended action, because it's not supported by the VMware ...
In some projects, we had many cases that IT staff tried to install a version of VMware ESXi in an incompatible physical server. For a while, we didn't have any problem, but suddenly unexpected events have been raised