Inaccurate monitoring of sensor data in the vCenter Server Hardware Status

Products

• VMware vCenter Server
• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• Inaccurate or incorrect monitoring of sensor data is reported in the vCenter Server Hardware Status
• vCenter Server Hardware Status intermittently displays incorrect information
• Inaccurate alerts are generated in the vCenter Server Hardware Status tab
• Sensor data information available from the hardware vendors may be incorrectly displayed in the vCenter Server or vSphere Client connected to the ESX/ESXi host

Environment

VMware ESXi 4.1.x Installable
VMware vCenter Server 4.1.x
VMware vCenter Server 4.0.x
VMware vSphere ESXi 5.1
VMware vCenter Server 5.0.x
VMware ESXi 4.1.x Embedded
VMware vSphere ESXi 5.5
VMware vCenter Server 5.5.x
VMware ESX 4.0.x
VMware vSphere ESXi 5.0
VMware ESX 4.1.x
VMware vCenter Server 5.1.x

Cause

After IPMI write operations, sfcbd returns incorrect data for a period of time (approximately between 30 seconds and 5 minutes).

Resolution

This is a known issue. Currently, there is no workaround.

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