Proc Failure - What happens?

[BKULICKGB]

Greetings!

I searched the forums and could not find a specific answer to this question:

What happens on ESX 3.5 when a physical proc fails in a dual proc server that is running VMs?

Would this result in a PSOD? Would the server continue to operate? I would imagine the VMs on those cores would crash.

Thanks in advance for any insight you can provide.

[malaysiavm]

do you meant the physical processor failure? if yes, your server will be hang up and should not able to be start up until you replace the processors. In that case, I believe all the vms on the esx will be fail and it should failover to the HA cluster if you had HA enable

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[BKULICKGB]

Yes, physical processor failure in the ESX host itself. I would expect a PSOD or lockup. Thanks for the reply.

[khughes]

I would imagine you would get some sort of warning / PSOD. If this was the case HA should kick in and you would work on your server.

• Kyle