A Purple Screen of Death (PSOD) is a diagnostic screen with white type on a purple background. The term Purple Screen of Death is a play on the Blue Screen of Death, the informal name given by users to the Windows general protection fault error. Typically, the PSOD details the memory state at the time of the crash and includes other information such as the ESXi version and build, the exception type, register dump, what was running on each CPU at the time of the crash, backtrace, server uptime, error messages and core dump information.
