davewex
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ESX 3.5 Locking up
HI,
I installed 2 ESX 3.5 Update 2 servers at the same time a few months ago. They are both DL380 G5s 14 GB RAM, 2 x Quad core processors and are attached to an MSA500.
ESX02 as I called it locks up once a week. The guests are in accessible and the Infrastructure client cannot connect to the serve. The only way I can get it back up is to connect to ILO and reboot it. The server is by no means stressed and has plenty of available resources.
I managed to get a look at what it says on the console when the above happens. It read
"kernel 2.4.21-57. Elvmnix on an i686 you probably have a hardware problem with your RAM chips. Please consult hardware error logs"
I booted the server off a diagnostic cd and ran a memory test and it gave the all clear, as usual
!
I am looking for a way to get the server to send out logs or see what is happening in the back-ground when this happens. I also have the HP Insight Management agents installed and the ILO doesn't have any errors when the server is locked up.
Help much appreciated!
Thanks
I installed 2 ESX 3.5 Update 2 servers at the same time a few months ago. They are both DL380 G5s 14 GB RAM, 2 x Quad core processors and are attached to an MSA500.
ESX02 as I called it locks up once a week. The guests are in accessible and the Infrastructure client cannot connect to the serve. The only way I can get it back up is to connect to ILO and reboot it. The server is by no means stressed and has plenty of available resources.
I managed to get a look at what it says on the console when the above happens. It read
"kernel 2.4.21-57. Elvmnix on an i686 you probably have a hardware problem with your RAM chips. Please consult hardware error logs"
I booted the server off a diagnostic cd and ran a memory test and it gave the all clear, as usual
!
I am looking for a way to get the server to send out logs or see what is happening in the back-ground when this happens. I also have the HP Insight Management agents installed and the ILO doesn't have any errors when the server is locked up.
Help much appreciated!
Thanks
I second azjeep on that this is probably a hw issue, and that your memory is likely the culprit. Checking your memory dimms before going into prod is very important.
Lars
Lars
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I installed the agents after I started getting the issue. I am going to run memtest on it this evening as I used HP diagnostics the last time. I guess you guys can't help and its down to trial and error...I was just hoping for an easy fix
thanks anyway
thanks anyway
It doesn't get much easier than swapping out a couple of DIMMs ;)
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I haven't always had good luck testing RAM with software apps like the diagnostic disks. Try swapping it out for sure. It's an easy fix if it is indeed the RAM.