We have 2 PowerConnect 8024F stacked units. Over the past 2 nights our VMWare hosts have frozen up causing us to have to reboot them. The common thread is the PowerConnect / EqualLogic storage system. The logs in both PowerConnect units show the following:
| 22215 | Notice | MAR 15 19:45:10 | TRAPMGR | 1/0/3 is transitioned from the Forwarding state to the Blocking state in instance 0 | ||
| 992 | 22216 | Notice | MAR 15 19:45:10 | TRAPMGR | Link Down: 1/0/3 | |
| 993 | 22217 | Notice | MAR 15 19:45:10 | TRAPMGR | Link on 1/0/3 is failed | |
| 994 | 22218 | Notice | MAR 15 19:45:18 | TRAPMGR | 1/0/3 is transitioned from the Forwarding state to the Blocking state in instance 0 | |
| 995 | 22219 | Notice | MAR 15 19:45:18 | TRAPMGR | Link Up: 1/0/3 | |
| 996 | 22220 | Notice | MAR 15 19:45:40 | TRAPMGR | Spanning Tree Topology Change: 0, Unit: 1 | |
| 997 | 22221 | Notice | MAR 15 19:45:40 | TRAPMGR | 1/0/3 is transitioned from the Learning state to the Forwarding state in instance 0 | |
| 998 | 22222 | Notice | MAR 15 19:47:11 | TRAPMGR | 1/0/3 is transitioned from the Forwarding state to the Blocking state in instance 0 | |
| 999 | 22223 | Notice | MAR 15 19:47:11 | TRAPMGR | Link Down: 1/0/3 | |
| 1000 | 22224 | Notice | MAR 15 19:47:11 | TRAPMGR | Link on 1/0/3 is failed | |
| 1001 | 22225 | Notice | MAR 15 19:47:12 | TRAPMGR | 1/0/3 is transitioned from the Forwarding state to the Blocking state in instance 0 | |
| 1002 | 22226 | Notice | MAR 15 19:47:12 | TRAPMGR | Link Up: 1/0/3 | |
| 1003 | 22227 | Notice | MAR 15 19:47:34 | TRAPMGR | Spanning Tree Topology Change: 0, Unit: 1 | |
| 1004 | 22228 | Notice | MAR 15 19:47:34 | TRAPMGR | 1/0/3 is transitioned from the Learning state to the Forwarding state in instance 0 | |
| 1005 | 22229 | Notice | MAR 15 19:48:57 | TRAPMGR | 1/0/3 is transitioned from the Forwarding state to the Blocking state in instance 0 | |
| 1006 | 22230 | Notice | MAR 15 19:48:57 | TRAPMGR | Link Down: 1/0/3 | |
| 1007 | 22231 | Notice | MAR 15 19:48:57 | TRAPMGR | Link on 1/0/3 is failed | |
| 1008 | 22232 | Notice | MAR 15 19:48:58 | TRAPMGR | 1/0/3 is transitioned from the Forwarding state to the Blocking state in instance 0 | |
| 1009 | 22233 | Notice | MAR 15 19:48:58 | TRAPMGR | Link Up: 1/0/3 | |
| 1010 | 22234 | Notice | MAR 15 19:49:13 | TRAPMGR | 1/0/3 is transitioned from the Forwarding state to the Blocking state in instance 0 | |
| 1011 | 22235 | Notice | MAR 15 19:49:13 | TRAPMGR | Link Down: 1/0/3 | |
| 1012 | 22236 | Notice | MAR 15 19:49:13 | TRAPMGR | Link on 1/0/3 is failed | |
| 1013 | 22237 | Notice | MAR 15 19:49:14 | TRAPMGR | 1/0/3 is transitioned from the Forwarding state to the Blocking state in instance 0 | |
| 1014 | 22238 | Notice | MAR 15 19:49:14 | TRAPMGR | Link Up: 1/0/3 | |
| 1015 | 22239 | Notice | MAR 15 19:49:36 | TRAPMGR | Spanning Tree Topology Change: 0, Unit: 1 | |
| 1016 | 22240 | Notice | MAR 15 19:49:36 | TRAPMGR | 1/0/3 is transitioned from the Learning state to the Forwarding state in instance 0 |
I do not know what is causing this issue. Has anyone experienced this before and can you give me some insight on where to begin? Our systems have been running without these issues for the past 3 years on firmware 3.1.4.5 without issues.
Thank you for your help.