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ESXi host crashes with a PSOD - @BlueScreen: PCPU 11: no heartbeat (3/3 IPIs received)You will see similar messages as below @BlueScreen: PCPU 11: no heartbeat (3/3 IPIs received) YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.609Z cpu12:68535)@BlueScreen: PCPU 11: no heartbeat (3/3 IPIs received) YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.609Z cpu12:68535)Code start: 0x418037800000 VMK uptime: 115:12:44:05.065YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.609Z cpu12:68535)Saved backtrace from: pcpu 11 Heartbeat NMIYYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.610Z cpu12:68535)0x43932041b770:[0x4180378698aa]DevFSIoctl@vmkernel#nover+0x1f6 stack: 0x43932041b7d0YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.610Z cpu12:68535)0x43932041b810:[0x41803783e344]FSSVec_Ioctl@vmkernel#nover+0x6c stack: 0x514c7428YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.610Z cpu12:68535)0x43932041b860:[0x41803783acaa]FSS_IoctlByFH@vmkernel#nover+0x9a stack: 0x19YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.611Z cpu12:68535)0x43932041b8a0:[0x418038a6bff9]CBT_Ioctl@(cbt)#<None>+0x201 stack: 0x0YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.611Z cpu12:68535)0x43932041b940:[0x418037869897]DevFSIoctl@vmkernel#nover+0x1e3 stack: 0x500735f55bb24bdaYYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.611Z cpu12:68535)0x43932041b9e0:[0x41803783e344]FSSVec_Ioctl@vmkernel#nover+0x6c stack: 0x416c742bYYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.611Z cpu12:68535)0x43932041ba30:[0x41803783acaa]FSS_IoctlByFH@vmkernel#nover+0x9a stack: 0x43054028b940YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.612Z cpu12:68535)0x43932041ba70:[0x418037b66e09]VSCSIFsEmulateCommand@vmkernel#nover+0x15dd stack: 0x430013cb6bc0YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.612Z cpu12:68535)0x43932041bc70:[0x418037b680ec]VSCSI_FSCommand@vmkernel#nover+0xe4 stack: 0xffff8103c700dff0YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.612Z cpu12:68535)0x43932041bd40:[0x418037b5d5c5]VSCSI_IssueCommandBE@vmkernel#nover+0x31 stack: 0x43054028b940YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.613Z cpu12:68535)0x43932041bd80:[0x418037b5ea6c]VSCSIExecuteCommandInt@vmkernel#nover+0x3b4 stack: 0x823ac9000YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.613Z cpu12:68535)0x43932041be10:[0x418037b70d0b]LSIProcessReqInt@vmkernel#nover+0x6fb stack: 0x43932041beabYYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.613Z cpu12:68535)0x43932041bf50:[0x418037b7142e]LSI_ProcessReq@vmkernel#nover+0x66 stack: 0x439334d27100YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.614Z cpu12:68535)0x43932041bf80:[0x4180379197d7]VMMVMKCall_Call@vmkernel#nover+0x157 stack: 0x43932041bfecYYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.614Z cpu12:68535)0x43932041bfe0:[0x41803794b8a2]VMKVMM_ArchEnterVMKernel@vmkernel#nover+0xe stack: 0x0YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.618Z cpu12:68535)base fs=0x0 gs=0x418043000000 Kgs=0x0 In the vmkernel.log you will see message as below related to seSparse snapshot created on base vmdk of size that is not 4K aligned - numBlocks=4080218930 YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.582Z cpu18:2319716)VSCSI: 3801: handle 22158(vscsi0:1):Creating Virtual Device for world 2319506 (FSS handle 6974411622) numBlocks=4080218930 (bs=512)YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS582Z cpu18:2319716)VSCSI: 273: handle 22158(vscsi0:1):Input values: res=0 limit=-2 bw=-1 Shares=1000YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS cpu18:2319716)FDS: 586: Enabling IO coalescing on driver 'deltadisks' device '148851367-vmname-000001-sesparse.vmdk'YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.589Z cpu18:2319716)CBT: 1310: Created device 106c11369-cbt for cbt driver with filehandle 4408284009
This issue is resolved in VMware ESXi 6.5 Update 3 and VMware ESXi 6.7 Update 3 available at VMware Downloads.To work around this issue if you do not want to upgrade, specify the size of disk in GB or TB it would be 4K aligned (in other words, size is completely divisible by 4096)In this example above here size of the base vmdk "vmname.vmdk" was 4080218930 sectors for 512 bytes each. If this size is rounded up to 4080218936 sectors it will be 4K aligned. By extending size of this vmdk to 4080218936 sectors this issue can be avoided.