Virtualization Tips » Purple screen of death http://www.virtualizetips.com Covering all things in your Virtual Data Center. We write VMware, Citrix & Microsoft from VDI to VMotion. VMware Tips Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:41:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 How to decode VMware PSOD Purple Screen of Death crashes http://www.virtualizetips.com/2009/09/how-to-decode-vmware-psod-purple-screen-of-death-crashes/ http://www.virtualizetips.com/2009/09/how-to-decode-vmware-psod-purple-screen-of-death-crashes/#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:12:40 +0000 admin http://www.virtualizetips.com/?p=39 If you have ever lost a host to a PSOD (Purple screen of Death) you know that they may as well be written in Greek.  Sure you used to think that reading a Windows BSOD was a pain, but the VMware PSOD takes this to a new level.

In the past trying to break down what caused your host to crash on your own was a big task. Most folks would require a call to VMware support if the host did not come back up afterwards. But now VMware has since written a nice document on breaking down the many sections of the PSOD screen. This will give you some insight on what might be going on with your ESX host.

You can have a look at the VMware document here.

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