This is a known issue affecting ESXi 5.5 p10, ESXi 5.5 ep11, ESXi 6.0 p04, 6.0 U3 and, ESXi 6.5 GA on HPE ProLiant Gen8 servers. This information is also available for reference on the
HPE advisory.
For ESXi 6.5
For ESXi 6.0
For ESXi 5.5
Alternatively,
To resolve this issue, on the HPE ProLiant DL560 Gen8 server or the HPE ProLiant DL380p Gen8 Server when the IOMMU remapper is disabled, move the low-latency or high performing PCI-e card to slot 1,2,4,5 or 6 (depending on the type of secondary riser board that might be installed).
To work around this issue, re-enable the Intel IOMMU interrupt remapper on the ESXi host:
- Connect to the ESXi host with an SSH session and root credentials.
- Run this command:
esxcli system settings kernel set --setting=iovDisableIR -v FALSE
- Reboot the ESXi host.
- Ensure that the iovDisableIR setting is set to FALSE by running this command:
esxcli system settings kernel list -o iovDisableIR
For example:
esxcli system settings kernel list -o iovDisableIR
Name Type Description Configured Runtime Default
------------ ---- --------------------------------------- ---------- ------- -------
iovDisableIR Bool Disable Interrupt Routing in the IOMMU... FALSE FALSE TRUE