Intermittent disconnections between VM servers and storage system
Applies to
- A400
- ONTAP 9.15.1P8
- CIFS
- SamSung VDI SmartCloud
- IIS
Issue
- Intermittent disconnections between VM servers and their NetApp storage system
- The issue resulting in VDI portal servers experiencing IIS 500 error

- Windows Events
Error 8/25/2025 5:34:40 PM Microsoft-Windows-SMBClient 30803 None "The network connection could not be established."Error: {Device Timeout}The I/O operation at %hs failed to complete before the time-out period expired.Server name: server1Server address: ip_address:445Instance name: \Device\LanmanRedirectorConnection type: Wsk- There are no CIFS related errors from EMS and Secd log
- No high latency on workload



