ESXi Purple Screen of Death

When you get the purple screen of death on an ESXi host you have to manually reboot it.

Obviously you should investigate and remedy the issue causing the purple screen but having the server stall in the middle of the night isn't ideal so why not get it to automatically reboot after a purple screen of death.

All you need to do is SSH to your ESXi host and run the following command

esxcfg-advcfg -s seconds /Misc/BlueScreenTimeout

Where seconds is a numerical value. For example:

esxcfg-advcfg -s 120 /Misc/BlueScreenTimeout

Now your ESXi host will automatically reboot after the set number of seconds you set.