{"id":388,"date":"2011-06-21T14:54:32","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T18:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/?p=388"},"modified":"2011-06-21T14:54:32","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T18:54:32","slug":"vmware-esxi-psod-on-dell-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/virtualization\/vmware-esxi-psod-on-dell-server\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware ESXi Purple Screen of Death (PSOD) on Dell Server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I was informed of a customer who had a Purple Screen of Death on a Dell PowerEdge R810 running ESXi 4.1 Update 1.  The stop screen showed the following reason:<\/p>\n<pre>LINT1 motherboard interrupt. This is a hardware problem: please contact your hardware vendor<\/pre>\n<p>After working with Dell tech support, the customer was directed to disable the C States and C1E settings in the BIOS.  I was interested in this setting as I have a cluster using the same hardware with the same version of ESXi.<\/p>\n<p>The following article describes C States and specifically the C1E setting; it is a method to reduce power consumption by powering off cores when not in use:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delltechcenter.com\/page\/Impact+of+C1E+on+PowerEdge+11G+Servers+--+HPBD+100909\">http:\/\/www.delltechcenter.com\/page\/Impact+of+C1E+on+PowerEdge+11G+Servers+&#8211;+HPBD+100909<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>The VMware Performance Best Practices Guide (available here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/pdf\/Perf_Best_Practices_vSphere4.0.pdf\">http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/pdf\/Perf_Best_Practices_vSphere4.0.pdf<\/a>) specifically states on page 15 to &#8220;Disable C1E halt state in the BIOS.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t spend a lot of time changing settings in the BIOS, but with the possible impact of this setting thought this was worth sharing.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I was informed of a customer who had a Purple Screen of Death on a Dell PowerEdge R810 running ESXi 4.1 Update 1. The stop screen showed the following reason: LINT1 motherboard interrupt. This is a hardware problem: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/virtualization\/vmware-esxi-psod-on-dell-server\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}