ESXi host fail with a purple diagnostic screen when a virtual machine enters into sleep mode

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi 8.0

Issue/Introduction

The ESXi might fail with a purple diagnostic screen in the situation:

• The Wake-on-LAN is active on the virtual machine
• The bus mastering is not active on the virtual machine
• The VM enters into a sleep mode

The PSOD back trace was as follow:
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YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ cpu0:##########)@BlueScreen: ASSERT bora/vmkernel/net/ens/sse/vmxnet3_ensdev_tx.c:309
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ cpu0:##########)Code start: 0x420027200000 VMK uptime: #:##:##:##.###
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ cpu0:##########)0x4539ce89a920:[0x420027427847]PanicvPanicInt@vmkernel#nover+0x2f3 stack: 0x4539ce89a9d8
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ cpu0:##########)0x4539ce89a9d0:[0x420027428079]Panic_NoSave@vmkernel#nover+0x52 stack: 0x4539ce89aa30
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ cpu0:##########)0x4539ce89aa30:[0x42002742828a]Panic_OnAssertAt@vmkernel#nover+0xbf stack: 0x13500000000
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ cpu0:##########)0x4539ce89aab0:[0x420027c610d1]Int6_AssertFailOrUD@vmkernel#nover+0x136 stack: 0x0
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ cpu0:##########)0x4539ce89aad0:[0x420027c580dd]gate_entry@vmkernel#nover+0xbe stack: 0x8001003b
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ cpu0:##########)0x4539ce89ab90:[0x420027849ec3]Vmxnet3EnsDevSetupUnmapData@vmkernel#nover+0x577 stack: 0x43133a827c00
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ cpu0:##########)0x4539ce89abe0:[0x420027854ac9]Vmxnet3EnsDev_TxV2@vmkernel#nover+0x5c2 stack: 0x4539ce89ae8b
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ cpu0:##########)0x4539ce89ad50:[0x42002a13603b]rte_port_vnic_reader_rx@(nsxt-ens-########)#<None>+0x6c stack: 0x915a3a1f9a0e
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ cpu0:##########)0x4539ce89ada0:[0x42002a19a2c7]EnsProcessInPortsIntr@(nsxt-ens-########)#<None>+0x7b4 stack: 0x4501030c1240
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ cpu0:##########)0x4539ce89aed0:[0x42002a1add32]Ens_NetWorldRun@(nsxt-ens-########)#<None>+0x77 stack: 0x45010003c5f8
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ cpu0:##########)0x4539ce89af20:[0x42002a1c4232]EnsNetWorldCallback@(nsxt-ens-########)#<None>+0x2bf stack: 0x450103071000
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ cpu0:##########)Panic: vPanicInt:561: vmtree:/build/mts/release/bora-24220262/src/bora

 

Resolution

This issue is resolved in the VMware ESXi 8.0 Update 3i (Build 25205845)

Additional Information

VMware ESXi 8.0 Update 3i Release Notes
https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/vsphere/vsphere/8-0/release-notes/esxi-update-and-patch-release-notes/vsphere-esxi-80u3i-release-notes.html