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Heavy Hitters for Fault

Following along with our Heavy Hitters series, today’s post focuses on Fault problems. Fault problems include PSODs (purple screen of death), memory leaks, internal monitor error and panics among other things. If you are running into problems this serious, you definitely want to have this list handy.

 

Article # Title
1009525 ESX lost heartbeat purple diagnostics screen error
1006791 Server stops responding and displays a purple screen error
1007819 Troubleshooting a virtual machine that has stopped responding
1003916 Verifying that ESX host hardware (System, Storage, and I/O) devices are supported
1002836 Why snapshot removal can stop a virtual machine for long time
1008014 Using the disk screen in esxtop to expand the CID, TID, and LID to determine the amount of I/O that a virtual machine (WID) is using
1004797 Host fails to mount root file system during boot
10051 Virtual machine does not power on because of missing or locked files