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Eric_Singer
7 years ago

FYI: LM can trigger ESXi 6.5 hostd to crash

Hi,

I just got done working with VMware support on an issue where our ESXi 6.5 hostd process would crash during a booting phase.  We eventually traced it back to a bug in some vSAN code that LM monitoring is polling..  It doesn't matter if you're running vSAN in your environment or not.  Our work around has been to disable host level monitoring in LM for our ESXi hosts for now and it's been stable ever since.

The expected fix is scheduled for release in Q3 2018 from VMware.

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  • Ryan_B's avatar
    Ryan_B
    7 years ago

    Does this only effect ESXi hosts directly added; or ESXi hosts monitored underneath a vCenter added to logicmonitor?

  • Mike_Rodrigues's avatar
    Mike_Rodrigues
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    7 years ago

    Hey @Eric Singer, thanks for bringing this to our attention. We've got our Collector Team looking into how to mitigate this now.

    We're also working to identify customers monitoring ESXi 6.5 so we can notify them proactively.

    I will update this thread as we learn more.