vdfstool crashed during generating support bundle

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

During generating support bundle, vdfstool crashed. FSVM might power off and power on automatically in a same time.

From vobd.log, you could confirm that cores of vdfsd-proxy-zdump and vdfsd-server-zdump were generated.

YYYY-MM-DDTmm:hh:ss.###Z: [UserWorldCorrelator] 18390982385783us: [vob.uw.core.dumped.encrypted] /usr/lib/vmware/vdfs/bin/vdfstool(#######) /var/core/vdfsd-proxy-zdump.000 
YYYY-MM-DDTmm:hh:ss.###Z: [UserWorldCorrelator] 18390984028179us: [vob.uw.core.dumped.encrypted] /usr/lib/vmware/vdfs/bin/vdfstool(#######) /var/core/vdfsd-server-zdump.000 

Environment

ESXi 7.0

Cause

It's a known issue fixed in 7.0 U3o or later.

Resolution

Update ESXi to 7.0 U3o or later, since there is no workaround for this issue.