SSH crashes on ESXi 8.0.3 hosts in VxRail environment

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi
• VMware Cloud Foundation 5.x

Issue/Introduction

• Running esxcli commands (with or without any arguments/parameters) in ESXi causes a python stack trace error.
• When connecting via KVM esxcli commands works correctly
• VMkernel logs shows SSH is out of memory
  
  

  2024-12-02-T10:52:52.923Z In(182) vmkernel: cpu67:50490087)uw.50490087 (411285562) requires 256KB, asked for 256 KB from ssh (758) which has 819012 KB occupied and 188 KB available

• Auth logs on the host shows the VxRail manager causing the memory issue.

Environment

VMware Cloud Foundation 5.x
VMware vSphere ESXi 8.0U3

Resolution

• Reboot the VxRail manager 
• Engage with Dell Support for further assistant if required.