Virtual machines become unresponsive during power on or snapshot consolidation

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• Virtual machines freezes/hangs during power on or snapshot consolidation
• ESXi host needs to be rebooted to recover from the issue.

Environment

VMware vSphere ESXi 7.0.2

Cause

• This issue is rare and occurs due to a race condition during opening of VMDK file.

Resolution

This issue is resolved in ESXi 7.0 Update 3d build 19482537, see Download Broadcom products and software

For more information, refer Resolved Issues section of VMware ESXi 7.0 Update 3d Release Notes