

- Install esxi 6.5 on sd card recommended install#
- Install esxi 6.5 on sd card recommended update#
- Install esxi 6.5 on sd card recommended driver#
- Install esxi 6.5 on sd card recommended Patch#
Install esxi 6.5 on sd card recommended driver#
Initially, I thought this was a problem with HPE (only had this problem with HPE Servers, since my DELL servers run vSphere on SSD Local disks) with the controller driver(vibs) or even the iLO driver (we had updated a week or so before). I have spent so many hours on this issue, that I cannot count. This is one of the worse bugs that I have seen in a long time in VMware and was also one of the worse issues I have worked with and troubleshoot for a long time and to find the root cause. Wrong, this is a VMware issue, and it seems to be with the vmkusb driver that triggers this problem.

VMware first stated that it was a vendor problem (direct me and others to troubleshoot in the wrong place). 159300836802us: Device or filesystem with identifier has entered the All Paths Down Timeout state after being in the All Paths Down state for 140 seconds. 159296538357us: Device or filesystem with identifier has entered the All Paths Down Timeout state after being in the All Paths Down state for 140 seconds. 159300836592us: Lost connectivity to storage device mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0. 159160830951us: Device or filesystem with identifier has entered the All Paths Down state. 159156536280us: Device or filesystem with identifier has entered the All Paths Down state. This is the first thing you see when your ESXi host has the issue.Ĭhecking logs, you will see a lot of cat /var/log/vmkernel.log Since it is impossible to power off or migrate any VMs, the only option is to do a hard reset to the server and leave HA to restart VMs on another ESXi host.Īs everyone knows, doing this in a Production environment with hundreds of VMs has a huge impact on the company and its running systems and applications. Then ESXi hosts reach 100% of the CPU, and all VMs have a huge impact on performance. All VMs continue to work but not able to power down, power up, no migrations anything. Since there is no access to the SD card and system partitions, the ESXi host hangs, and it is impossible to do anything.
Install esxi 6.5 on sd card recommended update#
VSphere 7 Update 2 when is running on an SD Card simply loses connection to the SD Cards, and ESXi host freezes. I move all our scratch and coredump partitions to a Storage Datastore, so not running any of those partitions or logs on SD Cards.
Install esxi 6.5 on sd card recommended Patch#
Note: Some unofficial statements from VMware employees say that a new patch to fix this issue(and others) will be launch on 15th of July. More information about this issue: KB83963 KB83782 Information about these: kb2077516and kb83376or in the What is new, The issue that we had in vSphere U1, fixed in U2 and is not related to this issue. Note: This problem is not related to vSphere 7 new partitions or /scratch or /coredump partition when running on an SD Card.
Install esxi 6.5 on sd card recommended install#
If you upgrade from vSphere 6.7 to 7 update 2 or install vSphere 7 Update 2 in an SD Card, then have or will get this huge problem soon. If you are one of the unlucky ones with vSphere 7 Update 2 loses connection with SD Cards a Workaround, then I feel your pain.
