ESXi host PSOD while collecting support bundles from NSX

Products

• VMware NSX
• VMware vSphere ESX 8.x

Issue/Introduction

• The ESXi host may experience PSOD while collecting support bundles from NSX.
• The backtrace contains the following functions in it:
  
  _{EfiShared_IterateMemMapBegin
  EFI_VsiListMemoryMap
  VSIGetListInfoInt
  VSISyscall_GetListInfoWrapper
  UW64VMKSyscallUnpackVSI_GetList}
  
  
• /var/run/log/vmkernel.log on ESXi host shows the following log entries while dumping core:
  
  _{ESC[7m2026-03-24T13:52:03.705Z cpu71:2097709)WARNING: bnxtnet: bnxtnet_mempool_alloc:1062: [bnxtnet : ########] Failed to map 1 pages (bad0001)ESC[0m
  ESC[7m2026-03-24T13:52:03.705Z cpu71:2097709)WARNING: bnxtnet: bnxtnet_dma_alloc_coherent:1469: [vmnic1 : ########] Could not allocate memory: size: 32 aligned: 4096ESC[0m
  ESC[7m2026-03-24T13:52:03.705Z cpu71:2097709)WARNING: bnxtnet: bnxtnet_rxq_alloc:2530: [vmnic1 : ########] Failed to allocate rx ring resource for rxq (qid 59), error = 195887124ESC[0m
  ESC[7m2026-03-24T13:52:03.705Z cpu71:2097709)WARNING: bnxtnet: bnxtnet_init_q_group_sec_queues:3138: [vmnic1 : ########] Fail to allocate memory for secondary queues to q_group 1.ESC[0m}
  
  
• The ESXi host has VMs with vmxnet3 adapter registered on it at the time of this issue.

Environment

• VMware NSX
• VMware vSphere ESXi

Cause

This is caused by XMap fragmentation/exhaustion for the VMXNet3 device.

Resolution

Refer to KB Virtual machine power-on task fails with an error "Failed to instantiate VMM bootstrap blob: Failure"