Warning: hdr status: FCPIO_ABORTED IO failure!

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

• Host freeze
• Host not responding
• Multiple errors in vmkernel log similar to:
  2025-01-01T10:25:28.474Z Wa(180) vmkwarning: cpu8:2098095)WARNING: nfnic: <1>: fnic_fcpio_icmnd_cmpl_handler: 2016: sc: 0x45ba589e2500 tag: 0x799 hdr status: FCPIO_ABORTED IO failure!

Environment

8.x

Cause

IOPS are being aborted at the driver layer, which causes the hostd service to crash. When hostd crashes, the host enters a "not responding" state

Resolution

Contact HBA Hardware vendor and validate the reason for IO aborts which is happening in driver layer 

Additional Information

Similar issue:  Resolving Host Not Responding State with 'FCPIO_DATA_CNT MISMATCH IO Failure'