On PSOD no VMKernel Dump File is written to disk and no message is written to screen (the screen is either blank or full of dashes). I need this data to understand why the system crashes; any help as to how to fix this to write a dump file would be appreciated. Thanks. Notes: VMKCore partition exists, is active, and is configured (esxcfg-dumppart -l). esxcfg-advcfg -g /Misc/PsodOnCosPanic = 1. esxcfg-advcfg -g /Misc/CosCoreFile = /var/core. esxcfg-dumppart -C -D /vmfs/devices/disks/ = "Error running command. Unable to copy the dump partition: Couldn't find a valid VMKernel dump file. Dump partition might be uninitialized." Hardware diagnostics (Dell) checks okay. Hardware: VMWare ESXi 4.1.0 (VMKernel Release Build 320137) Dell Inc. Optiplex 960 (2 Drives) Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q9400 2.66GHz Configuration: 2 Virtual Machines: Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition SP2 (1 on each drive) VM 1: Executes Batch Jobs (Has Internet Information Services 6) VM 2: Database Server (Has SQL Server 2000)