Known issues and limitations with VMware hosts
The VMware Knowledge Base information on the VMware website contains information about known issues and limitations that can help you verify and troubleshoot your attachment configurations.
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- Increasing the disk timeout values for a Linux 2.6 virtual machine (1009465)Issues occur when the guest operating system timeout values are exceeded for attached storage disks. Possible symptoms:
- Inconsistent Linux operating system performance when disks are on SAN-based datastores.
- The Linux guest operating system might experience intermittent issues when stored on SAN-based datastores.
- During a host storage path failover, a Linux guest operating system reports a system error or file system error, encounters a kernel panic, or becomes unresponsive.
- Inconsistent Windows virtual machine performance when disks are on SAN datastores
(1014)
Windows virtual machines might experience intermittent issues when stored on datastores that are presented from non-local storage. This issue might be encountered on virtual machines that use SAN, NFS, or iSCSI storage.
- Enabling or disabling VAAI ATS heartbeatYou might experience the following symptoms:
- An ESXi 5.5 Update 2 host loses connectivity to a VMFS5 datastore that resides on LUNs that are based on IBM Spectrum Virtualize.
- You see this message in /var/run/log/vobd.log and in Virtual Center Events: Lost access to volume <uuid><volume name> due to connectivity issues. Recovery attempt is in progress and the outcome will be reported shortly.
- You see this message in /var/run/log/vmkernel.log: ATS Miscompare detected between test and set HB images at offset XXX on vol YYY