ONTAP SAN Guest does not boot if thin provisioned
Applies to
- ONTAP 9.16
- ESXi using VMID tagging feature
- Qlogic 2800 HBA
- Windows
- Linux
- Thin provisioned luns
Issue
- VMWare Storage VMotion onto or between NetApp LUN can result in blue screen of death BSOD "Memory Management" and or "Critical Process Died"
- Linux report corrupt guest OS file system
- VM boot failures due to unable to find boot device
- Powering off VM and moving VM back to original datastore can recover VM with disk repair
- Windows BSODs at boot
Example: