LinScsi: SCSILinuxAbortCommands: 1843: Failed, Driver MPT SAS Host, for vmhba2
Issue
Some of the VMs hosted on VMware ESXi 5.5 (DELL PowerEdge T310 host) occasionally become unresponsive.
All attempts to login to the host via VMware vSphere Client fails with following error:

Could Not Connect
vSphere Client could not connect to "10.5.5.25". An unknown connection error occurred. (The request failed because the remote server took too long to respond. (The operation has timed out))
VMware console vmkernel system logs (ALT + F12) display following errors:

mptscsih: ioc0: task abort: FAILED (sc=0x412e8182ecc0)
WARNING: LinScsi: SCSILinuxAbortCommands: 1843: Failed, Driver MPT SAS Host, for vmhba2
WARMING : ScsiPath: 6292: Set retry timeout for failed TaskMgmt abort for CmdSN 0x0, status
mptscsih: ¡oc0: attempting task abort! (sc=0x412e81718200)
The vmbha2 refers to a RAID-1 SATA array that had all affected virtual machines hosted.
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