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What is causing my VMWare ESXi 4.1.0 crashes

Points of My Scenario:
1. I am admin of VMWare ESXi 4.1.0 servers
2. I have 2 servers of identical hardware model and specs: Model: HP ProLiant DL580 G7, CPU=Intel Xeon E7540, RAM=48GB
3. I have virtual machines configured identically for both ESXi hosts (one set of VMs is a backup for the other)
4. Only one ESXi host regularly crashes with a BSOD (blue screen of death) - which is actually purple/magenta in color.
5. I have attached the text of the crash as it appears on screen in a text file.
QUESTION: How do I resolve whatever is causing the crash? - see attached text file.
ESXi-4-1-0-Error.txt

ASKER CERTIFIED SOLUTION

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

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

Have you also checked that all your firmwares are up to date, HP Server BIOS, Smart Array Controller, iLO, Network cards?

Could you give me some more information, VMs, Networking, Shared Storage Fibre Channel SAN, iSCSI SAN etc

Which server crashes, Production or Backup? Anything different between them?

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

The Exception 14 Page Fault may be caused by either a hardware or a software issue.
Source
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1020181

5g6tdcv4

Are you running broadcom NIC's? There is an update for esxi for this specific issue

waltforbes

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Hanccocka: I ran HP Diagnostics and caught the problems: memory temperature and processor temperature failures. I am fully satisfied that this case is resolved.