I've seen articles/posts regarding nested ESXi virtualisation but I seem to have an issue with purple screens when writing data to a second hard drive.
If I run the ESXi host on its own it runs without any issues, however when copying data to the nested host it'll randomly purple screen referencing a PCPU lock.
The local debugger after PSOD shows scsi aborts:
Anyone encountered a similar issue with nested ESXi?
CPU is set to host, Machine set to q35, SCSI Controller I've tried both VMware PVSCSI and LSI 53C895A, SeaBIOS, and OS type set to Linux 5.x - 2.6 Kernel
If I run the ESXi host on its own it runs without any issues, however when copying data to the nested host it'll randomly purple screen referencing a PCPU lock.
PCPU 1 locked up. Failed to ack TLB invalidate (at least 1 locked up, PCPU(s): 1).
PCPU(s) did not respond to NMI. Possible hardware problem; contact hardware vendor.
The local debugger after PSOD shows scsi aborts:
After which the PCPU's don't perform a heartbeat and results in the VM crashing.scsiTaskMgmtCommand:VMK Task: ABORT sn=0x8bddb initiator=0x43024ff900
ahciAbortIO: (curr) HWQD: 4 BusyL: 0 PioL: 0
scsiTaskMgmtCommand:VMK Task VIRT_RESET initiator=0x43024ff900
ahciAbortIO: (curr) HWQD: 4 BusyL: 0 PioL: 0
'Shared': HB at offset 3866624 - Waiting for timed out HB:
[HB state abcdef02 offset 3866624 gen 103 stampUS....
nmp_ThrottleLogForDevice:3863: Cmd 0x2a (0x459a4259a0c0, 2097165) to dev "t10.ATA___QEMU_HARDDISK__________QM00015_________" on path "vmhba1:C0:T1:L0" Failed:
nmp_ThrottleLogForDevice:3872: H:0x5 D:0x22 P:0x0 Invalid sense data: 0x0 0x0 0x0. Act:EVAL. cmdId.initiator=0x403024ff900 CmdSN 0x8bddb
WARNING: NMP: nmp_DeviceRequestFastDeviceProbe:237: NMP device "t10.ATA___QEMU_HARDDISK_______QM00015_______" state in doubt; requested fast path state update...
.... CmdSN 0x8bddb from world 2097165 to dev "t10.ATA____QEMU_HARDDISK________QM00015______" failed
Anyone encountered a similar issue with nested ESXi?
CPU is set to host, Machine set to q35, SCSI Controller I've tried both VMware PVSCSI and LSI 53C895A, SeaBIOS, and OS type set to Linux 5.x - 2.6 Kernel