ESXi host hangs when shutting down a VM that has a pcie pass through device - NVIDIA Quadro P600

On ESXi 7.x, one of my VMs caused the whole esxi host to hang. Only way to recover was through a hard reset. The root cause was due to the pass through Nvidia Qaudro P600 Adapter I had configured on the VM. During VM shutdown, the PCI reset function caused the host to hang. The following articles helped me: Reddit VMware KB Few of the PCI reset types are: Function Level Reset (FLR) Secondary Bus Reset Link Disable/Enable Device power state transition (D0 > D3hot > D0; non-standard reset method) To resolve the issue,...

March 5, 2024 · 3 min · Jahnin Rajamoni