HCI intermittent communication loss between ESXi and vCenter
Applies to
NetApp HCI
Issue
- Communication between ESXi and vCenter intermittently disrupted and reconnected
- Virtual machines hosted on the ESXi server were affected.
- Commands such as
ls /vmfs/volumes/
anddf
are unresponsive on the ESXi host. - Host was forcibly rebooted as commands to evacuate virtual machines were unresponsive.
- Post-reboot, the issue seemed resolved, with commands functioning normally.
- No HW failure from IPMI event