Re: ESXi 4.1 host disconnectivity issue

Question:

1. When you say the hosts are not pinging - are they not pingable from the VC machine or any other physical machines as well?
2. Do you have any physical machines (windows/linux/does not matter) connected to the same physical switch on the same network segment and vlan as the ESX hosts and have you tried pinging from there? Does it respond?
3. On the ESXi console - during the time of the disconnect - what does ALT + F12 show on screen? Can a screenshot be shared?
4. On the ESX host that is having the issue try the following commands and share their output

#gunzip /var/run/log/*.gz

#cat /var/run/log/vmkernel* | grep -i mptsas | less

#cat /var/run/log/vmkernel* | grep -i esr | less

#cat /var/run/log/vmkwarning* | grep -i mptsas | less

#cat /var/run/log/vmkwarning* | grep -i esr

Also, what is the hardware of the hosts?

What is the current BIOS level?

Regards

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