To Analysed ZDUMP POSD ( Purple Screen of Death ) for ESXi

Steps:

- Login through SSH ( User Putty ) as a root

- Now to locate the VMkernel zdump go to cd/var/core

- Type ls -al or ls -ltr to check the log. We are looking for ( vmkernel-zdump.1 )

- Extract the zdump type vmkdump_extract vmkernel-zdump.1

- Now we can see extracted files we are looking to ( vmkernel-log.1 )

- To read analysed the logs type less vmkernel-log.1 or to find the cause of POSD type less vmkernel-log.1 | grep @BlueScreen

- Now you can see the root cause of the PSOD