"hostd performance has degraded due to high system latency" event occurs

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi 7.0

Issue/Introduction

"hostd performance has degraded due to high system latency" event occurs.

From hostd.log and vmkernel.log, we can see the output like below.

-- hostd.log
warning hostd[####] [Originator@6876 sub=IoTracker] In thread xxxx, access("/vmfs/volumes/####-####-####-####/catalog") took over 14001 sec.
info hostd[####] [Originator@6876 sub=Vimsvc.ha-eventmgr] Event xxxx : Issue detected on "HOSTNAME" in ha-datacenter: hostd performance has degraded due to high system latency

-- vmkernel.log
cpu##:##### opID=#####)LVM: #####: Device naa.#################:1 detected to be a snapshot:

Environment

VMware vSphere 7.0

Resolution

At the time of this logging in the vmkernel.log, there were ongoing storage-related task's in the environment. The target volume was created from the storage volume copy function.

Additional Information

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