Thanks for additional info, we will include in our test plan.
We need to walk before we can run, and collect baselines, these the first baselines collection in the first part of the test plan, and we have been capturing data from ESXi 4.x to ESXi 7.x. When we have collected enough data, we will move on with our test plan, and connect the standalone hosts to vCenter Server. Slowly slowly catchy monkey.....
This will be the exact same condition when our hosts failed after 46 hours using the same conditions at 7.0.2a.
"Like I said before, what will trigger faster the issue is Importing OVF/OVA files to vCenter, upgrading VMware Tools, and also if you have a vCD running on that vCenter and using ESXi resources, you get the issue triggered in 2/3 days max."
Again are we looking at different issues here, we did not see any bootbank loss, on either host, one host failed at 46 hours, the other failed at 58 hours, on host restarts the SD cards were corrupted and causing errors with the media. e.g. the VIBs were corrupted, and compeleting surface scans showed physical media errors.
We still have those cards and are undergoing forensic testing.
Again with our failure. two hosts connected to vCenter Server, with no VMs, failure after 46 and 58 hours.
No OVF imported, NO VMware Tools nothing, this is the condition we are trying to reproduce.
No VMs no backups either.
Standard HPE installs with no changes to configuration or redirection of logs.
We don't work for VMware either, BUT whatever the issue we will detect it and see it by read and writes to media via Logic Analyzer, if we cannot reproduce the issue as we have seen in our environment, we will look at
1. vCLS
2. Import OVA
3. VMware Tools
But why should 1,2 and 3 cause this ? what is being excessively written to and why ?
With the above did you see log files being written alot, excessive swapping to the SD card ?
Hence why we are trapping reads and writes at logic level outside of ESXi at physical hardware.
We will incorporate your findings into our test plans. There is much data gathering to perform.