ESXi PSOD "Panic requested by another PCPU" while storage vMotion in progress.

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

During storage vMotion of a VM, and ESXi host crashes with a PSOD:

NMI IPI: Panic requested by another PCPU. RIPOFF(base):RBP:CS
PanicvPanicInt@vmkernel
Panic_WithBacktrace@vmkernel
NMI_Interrupt@vmkernel
IDTNMIWork@vmkernel
Int2_NMI@vmkernel
gate_entry@vmkernel
Fil3TruncateHelperVMFS6@esx
Fil3TruncateVMFS6@esx
Fil3_SetFileLengthVMFS6@esx
Fil3_RemoveTruncateFile@esx
Fil3RemoveVMFS6@esx
Fil3_Unlink@esx
FSSVec_Unlink@vmkernel
FSS_Unlink@vmkernel
UserFileUnlink@vmkernel
UserObj_Unlink@vmkernel
LinuxFileDesc_Unlink@vmkernel
User_LinuxSyscallHandler@vmkernel
gate_entry@vmkernel

 

Environment

VMware vSphere ESXi 7.0.3

Cause

The PSOD is triggered when corruption on the source datastore causes deletion of the original copy of vmdk to fail, after storage vMotion has copied the vmdk to the target datastore.

Resolution

This issue is fixed in 7.0.3 U3V(i.e P10) . PSOD will not be encountered if corruption is seen on file to be deleted.