Ivan Voras wrote: > Bas Smeelen wrote: >> Hi, >> >> We have a FreeBSD 7.2 Release amd64 running at a customers site in a >> vmware esx 3.5 environment with a san. >> This server is sometimes throwing errors and sometimes panicing or >> locking up in ways I have not seen before. >> I would say this has something to do with a failing disk, but this is a >> virtual disk so I'm a little bit puzzled. >> I have suggested to the vmware administrator that this could be >> something within their environment, but they cannot find anything. >> >> Has someone seen these errors before and maybe have a suggestion how to >> find out what the culprit is? >> >> Dec 1 01:58:25 tnras166 kernel: >> g_vfs_done():da0s1e[WRITE(offset=4045619200, length=16384)]error = 5 >> Dec 1 01:58:25 tnras166 kernel: >> g_vfs_done():da0s1e[WRITE(offset=6742622208, length=16384)]error = 5 >> Dec 1 01:58:26 tnras166 kernel: >> g_vfs_done():da0s1f[WRITE(offset=15796846592, length=16384)]error = 5 >> >> >> I have been running FreeBSD for a long time on real hardware and in >> vmware environments, but never encountered these type of errors before. >> There is no filesystem corruption after these messages or after the >> panic mentioned in the subject. This situation is now happening >> approximately once every six weeks. > > I have a number of FreeBSD systems running under various versions of > VMWare products (ESX, ESXi, Server) and can tell you that this is > almost certainly a problem on the host side. > > It can happen if the SAN is timeouting, for example if it's doing disk > scrubbing too diligently, etc. or the FC connections are problematic. > Try to get the vmware admin to look at the logs more closely both on > the host and on other machines hosted on the same VMWare instance or > the same SAN. > > Btw. which SAN product is it? Hi thanks for the fast response. I think this is a Dell/EMC san attached to two Dell PowerEdge (2950) servers.
So basically it would be advisable to recommend to look in the vmkernel and san logs around the same timestamps as I see this happening in the FreeBSD guest? DISCLAIMER: This e-mail is for the intended recipient(s) only If you have received it by mistake please let us know by reply and then delete it from your system; Access, disclosure, copying, distribution or reliance on any of it by anyone else is prohibited. If you as intended recipient have received this e-mail incorrectly, please notify the sender (via e-mail). _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
