VMware reports "Lost access to volume, recovery attempt in progress" error
Applies to
- ONTAP 9
- Performance
- ESXi hosts
Issue
- VMware reports below error on some of the NetApp datastores:
Error : Lost access to volume, recovery attempt in progres
- High Read and Write latency seen coming from Disk subsystem on the volumes located on SATA or SAS disk aggregate which are highly utilized (100%)
- Disks are handling double the operations that it is capable of handling, which is making these disks saturated.
- The top workload of Disk IO is user workload coming from the affected datatstore.