How can I set the timeout of VMWare virtual disks using udev?

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Issue

  • When running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) as a guest within VMware, VMware support may make the recommendation that timeouts for virtual disk devices are increased to '180'.
  • Virtualized disks are timing out and switching to read-only.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6

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