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ESXi v4.0 host crashed unexpectedly

My ESXi host crashed today unexpectedly. Vcenter showed to be disconnected from the host. When I accessed the host's consol it had a pink screen with various debug crash info.. It gave me the option to press 'R' to reboot or another option to access the local debug mode. I pressed 'R' and the host came back up perfectly fine. How to I obtain this crash information so I can post it on this ticket?

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Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

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Danny McDaniel

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gopher_49

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I tried to take a pic with my camera phone but it came out blurry. I think the server runs a quick memory test when it boots. I can go up to the office on Monday and bring the VM's down and run the memtestx86 you're referring of. Is this a native command to the ESXi console? Due to this I'm replicating farily often to another host so I can always bring up my VM's in the event I need to replace hardware.

gopher_49

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Ignore the comment in regards to the memtestx86 command via the console. I found the website and see that I can boot via an .ISO image. It's a HP DL380 64 bit proc server. It's a G4. We'll see if the current version will run on this system.

gopher_49

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ended up being a memory error.. I had spare memory laying around.

Thakns.