A VMware VM crashes with multiple hard LOCKUP occurrences

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Issue

  • A VMware VM crashes with multiple hard LOCKUP occurrences
[13909597.964392] NMI watchdog: Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu 5...
[13909597.964442] Kernel panic - not syncing: Hard LOCKUP
[13909597.964462] NMI watchdog: Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu 12...
[13909597.964508] NMI watchdog: Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu 13...

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • A virtual machine running on VMware ESXi hypervisor

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