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Multiple VMs reported corrupted in ESXi after the ontap upgrade

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Applies to

  • AFF
  • Ontap 9.x Cluster

Issue

  • VMs rebooted without warning on ESXi host end.
  • Ontap upgrade was recently performed.
  • A successful power off and on of VMs can be done but they crash again.
  • Storage Vmotion of VMs to healthy datastores fails due to VMFS corruption.
  • Multiple VMs experienced outages.
  • Low Rx seen on storage FC port where these hosts are actively accessing the data.
  • drop_abts_invalid errors reported on SLI port 1x

start                       end                         instance  drop_abts_invalid
2025-07-31 23:28:03 +00:00  2025-07-31 23:33:03 +00:00  port.1a                  65
2025-08-01 00:33:03 +00:00  2025-08-01 00:38:03 +00:00  port.1a                  18

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