RHEL reported metadata I/O error for RDM LUN's

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• Virtual machine running RHEL may report below message in dmseg.

xxx xx xx:xx:xx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx kernel: XFS (dm-7): Metadata CRC error detected at xfs_agfl_read_verify+0xa5/0xf0 [xfs], xfs_agfl block 0x3fffffc003

xxx xx xx:xx:xx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx kernel: XFS (dm-7): metadata I/O error in "xfs_alloc_read_agfl+0x7c/0xc0 [xfs]" at daddr 0x3fffffc003 len 1 error 74

xxx xx xx:xx:xx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx kernel: XFS (dm-7): Metadata CRC error detected at xfs_agfl_read_verify+0xa5/0xf0 [xfs], xfs_agfl block 0x407fffbf83

xxx xx xx:xx:xx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx kernel: XFS (dm-7): metadata I/O error in "xfs_alloc_read_agfl+0x7c/0xc0 [xfs]" at daddr 0x407fffbf83 len 1 error 74

xxx xx xx:xx:xx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx kernel: XFS (dm-7): Metadata CRC error detected at xfs_agfl_read_verify+0xa5/0xf0 [xfs], xfs_agfl block 0x40ffffbf03

 

• No connectivity or I/O errors reported from the ESXi host.

Environment

VMware ESXi 7.x
VMware ESXi 8.x

Cause

This errors is due the issue with the RHEL Operating system.

Resolution

Reach out to RHEL / OS vendor to investigate on this issue.