ESXi may fail to read the system power meter or other system health sensors via Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)
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ESXi may fail to read the system power meter or other system health sensors via Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)

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Article ID: 313459

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Updated On: 02-28-2025

Products

VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

ESXi may fail to read the system power meter or other system health sensors via IPMI.  The message "ipmi_completion: no reply, failed to communicate with bmc" appears in syslog.log.

syslog.log
xxxxxxxxxxxx:01:23Z sensord[2100089]: ipmi_completion: expected at least one byte/completion code to be returned, retries left: 10
xxxxxxxxxxxx:01:43Z sensord[2100089]: ipmi_completion: no reply, failed to communicate with bmc
xxxxxxxxxxxx:01:48Z sensord[2100089]: ipmi_completion: expected at least one byte/completion code to be returned, retries left: 10
xxxxxxxxxxxx:02:08Z sensord[2100089]: ipmi_completion: no reply, failed to communicate with bmc
xxxxxxxxxxxx:02:13Z sensord[2100089]: ipmi_completion: expected at least one byte/completion code to be returned, retries left: 10
xxxxxxxxxxxx:02:33Z sensord[2100089]: ipmi_completion: no reply, failed to communicate with bmc
xxxxxxxxxxxx:02:38Z sensord[2100089]: ipmi_completion: expected at least one byte/completion code to be returned, retries left: 10
xxxxxxxxxxxx:02:58Z sensord[2100089]: ipmi_completion: no reply, failed to communicate with bmc
xxxxxxxxxxxx:03:03Z sensord[2100089]: ipmi_completion: expected at least one byte/completion code to be returned, retries left: 10

Resolution

The issue has been resolved in ESXi 7.0 U3d.