Sunday 10 February 2013

Disk timeout value for guest OS on Netapp NFS storage

There is a setting which should be applied to all VM guest OS if you are using Netapp NFS storage as your datastore for your VMs. This setting increases the disk timeout value to 60 or 190. The setting is to prevent VM’s from blue screen, restart or lose connectivity if a netapp cluster fail over does occur. Although failovers usually take less than a minute this is a precaution so that the VMs stay up and delay the write to disk for up to 190 seconds. You can get the settings by installing VSC which will give you the ISO to mount onto the vm to apply the change.


Here is the reg value for Windows OS as that is what we primarily use:
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Disk\TimeoutValue to DWord 190

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