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ESXi host fails with PSOD #PF Exception 14 in world xxxx:Res6Affinity IP (55824)

Last Updated: 2/23/2024Categories: Known IssueTotal Views: 33818Language:
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Symptoms

The ESXi host fail with a purple diagnostic screen.

In the /var/run/log/vmkernel.* file, you see the entries similar to:

2018-04-04T16:41:16.544Z cpu25:66762)@BlueScreen: #PF Exception 14 in world 66762:Res6Affinity IP 0x418018e83e3e addr 0x0
PTEs:0x80574cf023;0x80574d0023;0x80574d1023;0x0;
2018-04-04T16:41:16.545Z cpu25:66762)Code start: 0x418018000000 VMK uptime: 155:03:46:53.395
2018-04-04T16:41:16.545Z cpu25:66762)0x43916651beb0:[0x418018e83e3e]Res6AffMgrGetLFBCInfoBucket@esx#nover+0x32 stack: 0x1
2018-04-04T16:41:16.545Z cpu25:66762)0x43916651bef0:[0x418018e84c40]Res6AffinityManager@esx#nover+0x134 stack: 0x43099b4faae0
2018-04-04T16:41:16.546Z cpu25:66762)0x43916651bf90:[0x418018108adf]vmkWorldFunc@vmkernel#nover+0x4f stack: 0x418018108ada
2018-04-04T16:41:16.546Z cpu25:66762)0x43916651bfe0:[0x4180182c91f5]CpuSched_StartWorld@vmkernel#nover+0x99 stack: 0x0

Note:The preceding log excerpts are only examples.Date,time and environmental variables may vary depending on your environment

Purpose

To avoid a PSOD

Cause

An ESXi host might fail with an error PF Exception 14 in world Res6Affinity IP due to a race condition between resource allocations and VMFS6 volume closing operation.

Impact / Risks

None

Resolution

This issue is resolved in:

ESXi 6.7 P02 ESXi670-202004002
ESXi 6.5 P07 ESXi650-202110001

To download go to the Customer Connect Patch Downloads page.

Workaround

As a workaround
1. Create a VMFS 5 datastore
2. Storage vMotion the VMs from VMFS6 to VMFS5 datastore.

Detectable by VMware SkylineTM

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