Hi I've seen it in one of my customers with the 3.4.0 iSM release. There is an emergency patch for that issue, released as 3.4.0.1 which seems to have fixed the runaway iNodes. BTW, is there a way to remove the iSM without having to put a node in Maintenance Mode?  TIA
VMware ESXi 6.5 build 13004031Dell PowerEdge R640Dell iSM VIB: 3.4.0 Hi All, Has anyone seen issues with the Dell iDRAC Service Module (iSM) 3.4.0 and ESXi 6.5 where iSM writes lots of zero length files to /etc/cim/dell/srvadmin/iSM/ini and exhausts the available inodes on the /etc ramdisk? We've had a number of ESXi hosts begin logging errors writing to /etc and in the worst cases the hosts have become disconnected from vCenter due to services like hostd crashing. We've removed iSM 3.4 from all our ESXi 6.5 hosts as a precaution until we fully understand the issue, but not all hosts showed the problem.
Dell iSM on ESXi 6.5 Ramdisk Issues