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bape1892 posted Feb 07, 2025 11:07 AM

I recently had a Dell Poweredge R720 for my lab purposes and in attempt to save space, and electricity, I have recently purchased a nucbox as these are widely regarded as great alternatives and solutions for homelabs.

I have an issue though that under a relatively high load, the system will reboot itself.  No PSOD.  I have no idea what's causing it though so I'm coming here to help diagnose as to what could be the issue.  Yes I have looked at the usual vmkernel, vobd, hostd logs etc but the data is all overwhelming.

I am running the latest ESXi build and running on an NVMe.  I have also tried running from external USB.  I have removed and swapped me RAM modules.  I have ran memtests.  I have ran CPU tests but no idea as to what is causing this.

CPU:  AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS
RAM: 64GB DDR5
Storage:  Internal 2TB Crucial T500 NVMe
GMKtec Nucbox

I thought I had found the culprit - I had enabled NVMe tiering and was getting constant crashing when using a consumer grade NVMe.  I removed the NVMe and disabled memory tiering and I have been stable for about 2 weeks.  No changes have been made but I received another host reboot.  So frustrating!

Any help is appreciated.