Unable to Access StorageGRID and Frequent I/O Errors on VM-based Admin/Gateway Nodes
Applies to
- NetApp StorageGRID 11.3.x, 11.4.x
- VM-Based Admin and Gateway Nodes
- VMware ESXi environments hosting StorageGRID nodes
Issue
- Customers report being unable to access the StorageGRID system and frequently encounter I/O errors when attempting to start the Primary Admin Node and Gateway Node VMs.
- The errors began after a VMware ESXi outage and ONTAP datastore connectivity loss.
- Even after restoring ESXi connectivity and correcting VLAN configurations, the affected StorageGRID VMs remain non-functional.
