An all paths down (APD) timer is started when there has been a 5 second period with no communcation on any given TCP stream After 140 seconds of being in this state, the connection is considered lost ...An all paths down (APD) timer is started when there has been a 5 second period with no communcation on any given TCP stream After 140 seconds of being in this state, the connection is considered lost and an APD timeout is reached YYYY-MM-DD T00:26:51.504Z: [APDCorrelator] xxxxxxxxxxxxxus: [esx.problem.storage.apd.timeout] Device or filesystem with identifier [xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx] has entered the All Paths Down Timeout state after being in the All Paths Down state for 140 seconds.
Applies to NetApp ONTAP Select (OTS) VMware HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen10 Issue OTS VM frequently reboots due to network partitioning. Giveback is only possible after the ESXi host is rebooted.