Anyone seen this error.. and any possible solution?
We saw that this is a known issue and we have the recommended settings but the testcase fails in the second iteration.. But we are seeing all the clone I/Os are completed too..
- PR 734590: vmkfstools times out after two hours.
Problem: A load issue causes vmkfstools command to time out after one hour. When this error occurs, this message displays: 2011-06-28 12:38:47 CDT [ HOST ] [0] INFO: [119] Process "vmkfstools" on is still running.
2011-06-28 12:38:47 CDT [ HOST ] [0] ERROR: [119] Timeout has been reached.
Workaround: Verify the following:
1. Each ESXi host must have a physical memory of 32 GB. Only eight virtual machines are configured and running each ESXi host. Windows VMs are configured with 3G memory and Linux VM are configured with 2G memory.
2. No additional LUNs are configured on ESXi hosts other than those specified in the certification guide: 65 LUNs total for block storage and 64 NFS shares total for NAS.
3. datastore1 and datastore2 are configured on high performance LUNs or NAS share.
4. No other load is running on the storage array while certification tests are running as this will impact response time and cause the test to fail due to high I/O latency.