ESX 4 U1 hosts Lock with SD 0:0:0:0 still a retry after 360 s

We are just past BOF ESX3.5 to ESX 4 U1 a few weeks back. We are running on an IBM Blade Center S with blades HS21-7995 and using the Module SAS RAID for storage.

On two occasion, all the arrested respondent/VMS ESX hosts were offline and on the console of each host appeared - SD 0:0:0:0 still a retry after 360 s.

After power cycling the blades and chassis of BCS, everything is back online.

Each host has a 20 GB on the START SAS RAID volume that is mapped to the blade.

This facility has been stable for more than a year on 3.5 and started this problem after the upgrade. The first time this has happened subsequently, I rebooted all hosts with a fresh install of ESX4 U1 after the failure of the volume. We have experienced this new yesterday morning.

I'll probably open a case of pension with Vmware and I already talk to IBM as well. Any ideas or suggestions are appreciated.

Newspapers, will be the starting point. Unless it's a known issue for IBM and VMware you will need to collect newspapers from the time of the problem. You have all the firmware update?

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