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PSOD – Purple Screen of Diagnostics

a.k.a: Purple Screen
a.k.a: Screen of Death

It shows the memory state at the time of the crash and other information useful to determine the root cause of the crash.


Actions:

  1. Take screenshot
  2. Contact VMware
  3. Reboot Host
  4. Get the Core dump -> https://www.dusklab.ch/esxi-cli-commands-core-dump/

Forcing a Purple Screen of Death

vsish -e set /reliability/crashMe/Panic 1

Sources and useful links

How To Deal With PSOD – The Purple Screen of Death

Interpreting an ESX/ESXi host purple diagnostic screen


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