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When you experience an issue where you are having issues seeing a LUN on an ESX/ESXi host, or performance is slow migrating virtual machines with a Storage vMotion in vCenter Server, this is defined as a Storage related issue by VMware. These articles can help you identify and resolve these issues if you experience this problem. Trending Issues These are new and emerging trending issues known by VMware: Virtual machines replicated with vSphere Replication cannot be restored using backup software (2051924)Migrating restore points from VMware Data Recovery to vSphere Data Protection (2051891)PowerPath/VE 5.7 does not load on VMware vSphere version 5.1 (2034796)Storage device performance deteriorated (2007236)ESXi 5.x hosts fail to mount VMFS5 volumes that are formatted with ATS-only capabilities (2006858)Re-creating a missing VMFS datastore partition in VMware vSphere 5.x (2046610) Common Issues These are common issues and/or steps you can apply to troubleshoot your issues: Unmounting a LUN or detaching a datastore/storage device from multiple ESXi 5.x hosts (2004605)Best practices for virtual machine snapshots in the VMware environment (1025279)Committing snapshots when there are no snapshot entries in the Snapshot Manager (1002310)ESXi/ESX hosts in APD may appear Not Responding in vCenter Server (1030980)Troubleshooting transaction logs on a Microsoft SQL database server (1003980)Creating a snapshot for a virtual machine fails with the error: File is larger than maximum file size supported (1012384)