VMware ESXi 6.5 build 13004031
Dell PowerEdge R640
Dell iSM VIB: 3.4.0

Hi All,

Has anyone seen issues with the Dell iDRAC Service Module (iSM) 3.4.0 and ESXi 6.5 where iSM writes lots of zero length files to /etc/cim/dell/srvadmin/iSM/ini and exhausts the available inodes on the /etc ramdisk?

We've had a number of ESXi hosts begin logging errors writing to /etc and in the worst cases the hosts have become disconnected from vCenter due to services like hostd crashing.

We've removed iSM 3.4 from all our ESXi 6.5 hosts as a precaution until we fully understand the issue, but not all hosts showed the problem.