The root cause was ugly: a storage driver bug that VMware had patched silently two years ago, but only for 7.0 and above. The 6.7 driver stack had finally choked on the new NVMe array they’d installed last quarter. Now every host that touched that LUN was seizing up like an old diesel engine in winter.
“Already writing it up.”
“Yeah?”
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