VMware KB: IPMI errors appear after firmware updates on ESXi hosts
The Hardware Status tab of an ESXi host in vCenter Server shows false positive alerts. The syslog.log file at /var/log/ contains entries similar to: sfcb-vmware_raw[471437]: IpmiIfcSelReadEntry: data length mismatch req=19,resp=15 sfcb-vmware_raw[471437 ....