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Problems When Using Emulex Fibre Channel Cards in Extreme Failover Conditions

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In multipathed configurations that use Emulex Fibre Channel cards, extreme failover testing conditions can trigger an ESX Server host failure. This issue is encountered after many hours of heavy failover testing and is unlikely to be encountered under normal use.

When this failure occurs, the following information appears onscreen and also in your VMkernel log file (/var/log/vmkernel):

Exception type 13 in world 1148:mks:Win2003N @ 0x9497bb:0x35f3a18:[0x9497bb] (lpfc_flush_disc_evtq+0x163(0x3d8c7030, 0x3fc19be0, 0x2)0x35f3a68:[0x950691] lpfc_linkdown+0xbd(0x3d8c7030, 0xdea, Exception type 14 in world 1085:vmm3:win2k3e @ 0x7e106f:0x34f7bc4: [0x7e106f]lpfcdd_7xx+0x406f(0x808d008, 0x808d100, 0x808bd98) 0x34f7bf4:[0x7df0a1]lpfcdd_7xx+0x20a1(0x808d008, 0x808d100, 0x808bd98) Exception type 14 in world 1081:mks:NW65-SP5 @ 0x0:0x34e7bd8:[0x0](0x3d092510, 0x5f6c33b8, 0x3425)0x34e7c20:[0x62e856]Timer_BHHandler+0x10e(0x0, 0x6f8408, 0x2000001)

Solution

No known data integrity issues are triggered by this problem.

This issue is resolved in ESX Server 3.0.1.

Keywords

2244; vi3relnotes; esx301

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KB Article: 2244
Updated: Aug 14, 2009

Products:
VMware ESX
Product Versions:
VMware ESX 3.0.x

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