VMWare datastores offline due to aggressive Capacity tiering
Applies to
- ONTAP 9
- ONTAP S3
Issue
- After changing the minimum-cooling-days from 31 to 2, VMWare datastores experienced severe latency and even went offline trying to access "cold" data
- Events like below are seen in EMS logs
Sun Jan 12 15:13:09 +0800 [AFF800-01: OscHighPriThreadPool: wafl.ca.latency.threshold:notice]: Measured latency from cloud (7496 msec) more than threshold (5000 msec) (aggregate: "aggr1_AFF800_01", aggregate uuid: "b65e0975-eaad-4578-9799-91063ab3b627", object store: "LocalFPwithS3")