As you might be aware, there have been a few storage-related issues with ESXi 6.0 as of late:
Accidental PDL during dropped paths:
Storage PDL responses may not trigger path failover in vSphere 6.0 (2144657)
Host issues during smartd inquiries:
Issuing a 0x85 SCSI Command from a VMware ESXi 6.0 host results in a PDL error (2133286)
The question that comes up for the Pure Storage FlashArray is are we susceptible? The short answer is no. Let’s explain why. Continue reading “Recent ESXi 6 Storage Bugs and the FlashArray”