Abnormal latency values are seen in ESXTOP and on the vCenter performance charts

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Symptoms:

esxtop displays abnormal DAVG/cmd and/or KAVG/cmd values.
In some cases, negative values are reported for latency, which is theoretically not possible.
In the vCenter Performance Chart you see unrealistic spikes in latency.
During low I/O activity on a device, the READS/s and WRITES/s values are close to or equal to 0.
You see values of DAVG similar to these:

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