SCSI error: return code = 0x00110018 and Read Only filesystems observed on VMware platform

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Issue

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8 Filesystems going Read Only on VMware platform
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: VMware   Model: Virtual disk     Rev: 1.0 
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
  Vendor: NETAPP   Model: LUN              Rev: 8020
  Type:   Direct-Access 
  • There are many Reservation Conflict messages belongs to disk where OS is installed
kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: reservation conflict 
kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: Unhandled error code 
kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00110018 
kernel: Result: hostbyte=invalid driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK 
kernel: Aborting journal on device sda1.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Guest on VMware platform

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