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  2. MTV-3900

Vmware vcenter fires about 10 daily emails "Alarm alarm.StorageConnectivityAlarm on Host .."

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      Description of problem:

      As I manage eco-vcenter, it just so happens that I get about ~10 daily email alerts from the vcenter hosts, granted I still can't say what triggers them but they seem to be related to MTV copy offload migrations.
       
      Example email1
      
      ecovcenter.redhat.com@eco-vcenter-server..13:02 (1 hour ago)to me This email is to notify you that an alarm has been triggered in your vCenter:
      Alarm alarm.StorageConnectivityAlarm on Host 10....136
      because Lost connectivity to storage device naa.600a0980383139544924583130324971. Path vmhba64:C1:T3:L19 is down. Affected datastores: Unknown..
      Alarm namealarm.StorageConnectivityAlarmDescriptionalarm.StorageConnectivityAlarmTargetHost 10...136 Triggered time11/24/2025 11:02:15 AM
      
      Example email2:
      ecovcenter.... 13:01 (1 hour ago)to meThis email is to notify you that an alarm has been triggered in your vCenter:
      Alarm alarm.HostErrorAlarm on Host 10....131
      because Issue detected on 10...131 in Eco-Datacenter: NMP: vmk_NmpVerifyPathUID:1340: UID of a device (path vmhba64:C1:T3:L19) has changed from naa.600a09803831395449245831303 (2025-11-24T11:01:43.580Z cpu5:46827632).
      Alarm namealarm.HostErrorAlarmDescriptionalarm.HostErrorAlarmTargetHost 10....131Triggered time11/24/2025 11:01:51 AM

      Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

      MTV 2.10
      OCP 4.19

      How reproducible:

      No idea, usually I notice around ~10 such related email.
      But again I have no idea (yet) what triggers them.
      

      Steps to Reproduce:

      1. Unfortunately I haven't yet managed to pinpoint what triggers these email alert.  
      2. I assume it's offload MTV migration due to the devices naa names.
      3. Very odd I still see this failing during weekend, when I suspect we're not doing any manual offload manual testing, automation isn't yet running.

      Actual results:

      On a daily basis I get ~10 email related to this.

      Expected results:

      Well I hope we're not doing something which is causing these kind of alerts. 

      Additional info:

      I'll try to triage this better see if I find anything useful on esxi host logs. 

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              rgolan1@redhat.com Roy Golan
              tshefi@redhat.com Tzach Shefi
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