VASA appliance CPU consumption increases when ESXi host is down
Applies to
- vSphere APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA)
- ONTAP Tools for VMware vSphere (OTV)
- Virtual Volumes (vVOL)
Issue
- VASA appliance CPU usage increases when ESXi host is down or unresponsive.
- This is resulting in vVOL access loss for connected hosts.
- Issue can be confirmed in VASA rightnow page (https://<VASA-IP>/rightnow). API calls such as these will be seen stuck for a long time: