Proactive Customer Advisory 86128: ESXi 7.0 U3 Host PSOD (purple screen of death)

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

After upgrading to vSphere 7.0 U3, ESXi hosts may experience a Purple Diagnostic Screen (PSOD) when a virtual machine issues an UNMAP or TRIM command on thin-provisioned virtual disks.

Environment

VMware vSphere ESXi 7.0.3

Resolution

Please refer to VMware KB article 86100 for details: ESXi 7.0 Update 3 host fails with a backtrace NMI IPI: Panic requested by another PCPU.