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ONTAP SAN SCSI errors in new ESXi setup with iSCSI connection

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • VMware ESXi

Issue

  • During initial setup of VMware ESXi with ONTAP iSCSI targets SCSI errors are encountered
  • Changing the VMware path selection policy (PSP) to fixed failover policy prevented further errors
  • VMware host virtual switch iSCSI vmkernel port has two vmnic uplink ports configured in active /active teaming and failover policy
ESXi vmkernel Example:
NMP: nmp_ThrottleLogForDevice:3893: Cmd 0x2a (0x45ba2b3795c0, 3621670) to dev “naa.600a098038abc“ on path “vmhba64:C0:T1:L1“ Failed:
NMP: nmp_ThrottleLogForDevice:3898: H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x6 0x29 0x0. Act:NONE. cmdId.initiator=0x43xyz CmdSN 0x2a1be80
ScsiCore: 2000: Power-on Reset occurred on naa.600a098038abc
ScsiCore: 2000: Power-on Reset occurred on naa.600a098038abc
NetqueueBal: 2418: vmnic5: Requesting 3 RSS sec queues for engine type 4
icen: indrv_InitSecondaryQueues:368: 0000:20:00.0: Uplink Queue ID 1: Initializing 3 secondary queues for RSS
NetqueueBal: 4198: vmnic5: New NetQ RSS engine created
NMP: nmp_ResetDeviceLogThrottling:3854: last error status from device naa.600a098038abc repeated 1 times
NMP: nmp_ThrottleLogForDevice:3893: Cmd 0x89 (0x45ba2b3687c0, 2097224) to dev “naa.600a098038abc“ on path “vmhba64:C1:T1:L2“ Failed:
NMP: nmp_ThrottleLogForDevice:3898: H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x6 0x29 0x0. Act:NONE. cmdId.initiator=0x430xyz CmdSN 0x196f276
ScsiDeviceIO: 4633: Cmd(0x45ba2b3d05c0) 0xfe, CmdSN 0x196f276 from world 2097224 to dev “naa.600a098038abc“ failed H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x6 0x29 0x0

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