VMware ESXi 5.5 host fails with a purple diagnostic screen and reports an LACPScheduler error

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• VMware ESXi 5.5 host fails with a purple screen.
• You can observe vNetwork Distrbuted Switch (vDS) configuration mismatch between vCenter Server and ESXi host.
• You see entries similar to:
  
  @BlueScreen: #PF Exception 14 in world wwww:WorldName IP 0xnnnnnnnn addr 0x0
  PTEs:0xnnnnnnnn;0xnnnnnnnn;0x0;
  0xnnnnnnnn:[0xnnnnnnnn]LACPScheduler@<None>#<None>+0x87
  0xnnnnnnnn:[0xnnnnnnnn]Net_TeamScheduler@vmkernel#nover+0x84
  0xnnnnnnnn:[0xnnnnnnnn]EtherswitchPortDispatch@<None>#<None>+0xe69
  0xnnnnnnnn:[0xnnnnnnnn]Port_InputResume@vmkernel#nover+0x18f
  0xnnnnnnnn:[0xnnnnnnnn]TcpipTxDispatch@<None>#<None>+0xa9
  0xnnnnnnnn:[0xnnnnnnnn]TcpipDispatch@<None>#<None>+0x1ae
  0xnnnnnnnn:[0xnnnnnnnn]WorldletProcessQueue@vmkernel#nover+0x779

Resolution

This is a known issue affecting VMware ESXi 5.5 hosts running with a vDS configuration which differs from vCenter Server.

This issue is resolved in VMware ESXi 6.0 Patch Release 5, available at VMware Patch Downloads. 

 

To work around this issue, manually synchronize the host vDS information.

For more information on manually synchronizing the host vDS configuration, see The vNetwork Distributed Switch configuration on some hosts differed from that of VMware vCenter Server (2042692).

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The vNetwork Distributed Switch configuration on some hosts differed from that of VMware vCenter Server