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Storage device has entered a permanent device loss (PDL) state from nearly/full volume or LUN

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Applies to

  • ONTAP
  • ESXi 

Issue

The ESXi host reports the storage device as “Not Connected" and VMkernel logs display Permanent device loss (PDL) warnings.

 

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