First, the specs.
While I was troubleshooting the hard drive issue, the entire raid controller seemed to shut down and then came back online. I'm wondering if there's an issue with the power supply? I also triggered an event in my server VM that caused the CPU to spike to 100% on purpose and after doing that for a minute, the server shut itself off again. This also leads me to believe it could be a power supply related issue. I'm leaning towards power supply or motherboard here. I'm on the latest version of the motherboard BIOS. Does anyone have any suggestions?
- Case: Norco 4220
- Power Supply: Corsair 750W
- Motherboard: Tyan S7012
- CPU: Intel Xeon E5540
- RAM: 64gigs ECC DDR3
- Raid Card: LSI MegaRaid SAS 9260-16i
- Hard Drives: 1x 256gig SSD, 19x 2TB spindle drives. All spindle drives are in a RAID 5. Passthrough is used to present the raid to the VM.
- OS: ESXi 6 (Installed to USB thumb drive)
- VM OS: Server 2012 R2
While I was troubleshooting the hard drive issue, the entire raid controller seemed to shut down and then came back online. I'm wondering if there's an issue with the power supply? I also triggered an event in my server VM that caused the CPU to spike to 100% on purpose and after doing that for a minute, the server shut itself off again. This also leads me to believe it could be a power supply related issue. I'm leaning towards power supply or motherboard here. I'm on the latest version of the motherboard BIOS. Does anyone have any suggestions?