RHEV reports storage latency alerts, what should I do?

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Issue

RHEV reports this warning message for some of its storage domains:

Storage domain X experienced a high latency of X seconds from host X. 
This may cause performance and functional issues. Please consult your storage administrator.

What does it mean and what action is required?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.x
  • RHEV hypervisor running vdsm package 4.10.2-23.0.el6ev or later

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