PSOD occured after update Cisco Integrated Management Controller

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

• PSOD might occure after update Cisco Integrated Management Controller and first time power on ESXi
• Reboot ESXi can recover from PSOD
• PSOD message below displayed and no dump file created
  

  The system has found a problem on your machine and cannot continue.
  Unable to restore the system configuration. A security violation was detected. https://via.vmw.com/security-violation

• SEL logged event similar with
  

  When: YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss
     Event Type: 2 (Information)
     SEL Type: 2 (System Event)
     Message: Assert + System Firmware Error Transition to Idle
     Sensor Number: 6
     Raw:
     Formatted-Raw: 09 03 02 0c 66 7c 69 33 00 04 0f 06 02 b0 00 00
  

Environment

VMware ESXi 8.x

Cause

This PSOD caused by the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) measurement values being skewed (or: offset) after a CIMC version upgrade.

Resolution

This is one time issue. Reboot ESXi host can recover from PSOD.

Contact Cisco for more details about this issue.