PFSense on Esxi Host Shutsdown

[Tienie]

Good day

I hope someone can assist me that encountered this before.

We are running the new HP Cube Gen 10 Hardware with Esxi installed for the host. We have PFSense installed as a VM on the Esxi Host

Now this is working 100%. .Until recently..

Every now and again, very random and sometimes multiple times in a day, Pfsense just goes down. In the System logs I see:

Date:Time : shutdown    power-down by root:
Date:Time : syslogd        existing on signal 15

Now I must mention - we do have some issues getting on the ESXI web interface so we do not really have visibility on the Esxi host yet.. :) I know this would have helped. We used to run Pfsense on a normal physicall server and we never had this issue. Now on the Esxi we have this.

So I suspect the esxi host is somehow shutting down the FW? But why?

Any ideas?

Thank you in advance

[KOM]

I've been running pfSense on ESXi for many years and I've never seen anything like that.  Perhaps the ESXi host is rebooting and you have it configured to do a guest shutdown on your VMs?