Every couple weeks my esxi 6 server goes offline but in a strange way..
the setup is boot off of USB on an intel 5520 mobo, Napp-it and one other VM boot off of a SSD on SATA
rest of the VMs boot off of storage proved by napp-it via passthrough of a LSI card in IT mode and a couple drives RDM from sata.
standard setup right?
so the failure mode looks something like this..
all VMs are in a wait state. they show as running but no storage, cant ping or ssh into any of them, even the ones on SATA storage
the only VM i get any info off of is the (frozen) console screen of the Napp_it vm as it is going down.. warnings about pci device busy too long, or scsi_status=22 or met_process_inter invalid scsi status
a
esxcfg-scsidevs -c on the host
results in seeing all storage except for the LSI card.. I can see the sata connected drives
I can ssh into and web into the host esxi shell and esxi web console everthing else hangs no reply
so what is going on here.. is the LSI card going off line for some reason?
the only solution is a hard shutdown of the server and bring it back up...
if the lsi card is at fault.. why is theVM that is on the SATA drive and has nothing to do with Napp-it freezing as well..?
Thanks in advance!!
the setup is boot off of USB on an intel 5520 mobo, Napp-it and one other VM boot off of a SSD on SATA
rest of the VMs boot off of storage proved by napp-it via passthrough of a LSI card in IT mode and a couple drives RDM from sata.
standard setup right?
so the failure mode looks something like this..
all VMs are in a wait state. they show as running but no storage, cant ping or ssh into any of them, even the ones on SATA storage
the only VM i get any info off of is the (frozen) console screen of the Napp_it vm as it is going down.. warnings about pci device busy too long, or scsi_status=22 or met_process_inter invalid scsi status
a
esxcfg-scsidevs -c on the host
results in seeing all storage except for the LSI card.. I can see the sata connected drives
I can ssh into and web into the host esxi shell and esxi web console everthing else hangs no reply
so what is going on here.. is the LSI card going off line for some reason?
the only solution is a hard shutdown of the server and bring it back up...
if the lsi card is at fault.. why is theVM that is on the SATA drive and has nothing to do with Napp-it freezing as well..?
Thanks in advance!!
