Hello, world!
It's my first post on this forum and the beginning of my journey with ESXi.
Recently I have built a new home server, hardware-wise it is using:
- ASRock X99 WS board
- Xeon E5-2630 v3
- 2x 16GB DDR4 2133MHz Samsung ECC Reg RAM
- A few HGST HDDs, and M.2 Samsung SSD to store host and VMs
Software-wise, I decided to go with BTRFS, so I am virtualizing Rockstor (basically CentOS with a newer kernel) in ESXi 6.0.
I tested a few other options, but decided to go with that.
However, my ESXi host freezes after a few hours (last time it worked for a little less than 3 hours).
I have checked knowledge base and have found article 1017135
Here are my results:
- Both host and VM freeze (VM services do not run, vSphere client disconnects, neither host not VM are pingable)
- Problem is persistent
- NumLock stops changing on the keyboard after host goes unresponsive
- Disk lights stop blinking, they are simply glowing
- (I am not sure if it is applicable to me, I am not using HA clusters)
- How do I trigger NMI state? / What do I do next?
- Unfortunately I do not have any other device that supports ILO, DRAC or RSA. Of course if it is an essential part in troubleshooting, I will get my hands on something.
- Usually reboot helps to solve the problem for a short period of time (however at the time of writing host entered unresponsive state right on boot)
- HOW do I collect diagnostic information?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, as I am a little bit confused with support solutions in knowledge base.
Thanks!
Lev