In a previous post, I've already talk about an issue occuring in a lab environment with vCSA 6.5u0 and PSC appliance : VCSA or PSC appliance won't boot after hard shutdown.

As the issue became more regular with time, I tried to figure out the root cause of those events.

As system's logs reports SCSI timeout on write …

I started using the VMware Photon based appliances to deploy vCenter services (VCSA) and PSC with the 6.5 version several months ago.

It's really stable and I appreciate to use it daily and to replace the windows based services with the appliance ones. But a couple of days ago, I had a bad suprise in a lab environment …