ESXi bug causes slow virtual machine replication due to error: IO was aborted by VMFS via a virt-reset on the device

Applies to

• Versions prior to ESXi 7.0P06
• VMware
• ONTAP 9+

Issue

• Slower replication of virtual machines, and connection failures during vSphere Replication tasks. 
• VMware support reported the following errors associated with storage performance:

vmkernel.log:

2022-12-09T04:40:25.196Z cpu40:3545647)Fil6: 4092: 'Vol_Name': Fil6 file IO (<FD c38 r31>) : IO was aborted by VMFS via a virt-reset on the device
2022-12-09T02:42:43.241Z cpu6:3542927)Fil6: 4064: numAddrs: 0, numTbz: 0, numPBsToAlloc: 0, numBlocksToAlloc: 0 numTBZBlocks: 0, numPBsToUnmap: 0, numBlocksToUnmap: 0
2022-12-09T02:42:43.241Z cpu6:3542927)Fil6: 4071: opType: 2, ioFlags: 272, allocFlags: 0, ioStateTxn: 0, ioStateNoTxn: 0, txnState: 0, numResolvedAddrMaps: 0, numTxnPendingAddrMaps: 0
2022-12-09T02:42:43.241Z cpu6:3542927)Fil6: 4076: wakeupOnIOComplete: 4294967216, isIOIssued: 0, isIODone: 0, isRead: 0 isSync: 0, canBlock: 1, lastPartialBlock: 0