Good evening. I've recently deployed some new HP BL465c G8 hosts running the HP OEM install for ESXi 5.5 (not the one just released on 02/18) and the two of the hosts have been disconnecting from vCenter four times over the past week. I can sometimes login to the hosts via iLO and restart the vCenter agent, but more often than not have to hard boot the host. On top of this, one of the VMFS5 datastore contents disappeared and the VMs residing on that datastore were down because the hosts couldn't find the VM's configuration files. Odd thing, the datastore showed spaced used and I could see all of the directories within CLI, but not from vCenter client or the Web-based Client. I have two open tickets with HP's VMware support team, but wanted to know if anyone has encountered a similar issue. I'm tempted to rebuild with the latest OEM install or rebuild them as 5.1 or 5.0 if the 5.5 version isn't fully baked. Thanks.
Scott