Seeing some failed read/write operation into the M.2 adapter.

Products

• VMware vSAN

Issue/Introduction

Experiencing latency and slow response time from virtual machines.  Output from the following command

#localcli storage core adapter stats get

t10.NVMe__M.2_NVMe_22DBay_RAID_Kit______XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX:
Device: t10.NVMe__M.2_NVMe_22DBay_RAID_Kit______XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

vmhbax:

Successful Commands: 1721197
   Blocks Read: 26583150
   Blocks Written: 12088250
   Read Operations: 614127
   Write Operations: 1107036
   Reserve Operations: 0
   Reservation Conflicts: 0
   Failed Commands: 42191752
   Failed Blocks Read: 0
   Failed Blocks Written: 0
   Failed Read Operations: 38310731
   Failed Write Operations: 3881020

Environment

ESXi 8.0 U3

vCenter 8.0 U3

Cause

The adapter has failed

#esxcfg-mpath -b

vmhba2:C0:T0:L0 LUN:0 state:dead pcie Adapter: Unavailable Target: Unavailable

Resolution

Contact hardware vendor

Additional Information

Additional Information:

Link to Marvell Technology Group Ltd Lenovo ThinkSystem M.2 NVMe 2-Bay RAID Enablement Kit on the VMware by Broadcom Compatibility Guide.