Hi Floks
Is there any possibilty to disable the continous storage discovery by esxi host for temporary purpose.
Briefly:
Our storage team is planning to perform maintenance activity on one of the stoarge box which is connected to more that 90% of hosts in different clusters in vmware environment and this storage is connected to vms also.
We are planning to powered off all vms connected to that storage to stop i/os but still esxi will discover the storage and shows APD or PDL condition so for esxi 4.1 host will go to not responding state this will effect leftover vms and for 5.0/5.1 hosts there might be chances to show not responding state so to overcome this is there any possiblity to stop discovering the particular storage for temporary purpose to carry activity.
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