EMC Powerpath and Windows 2008 R2

2010-07-29 Thread Ziots, Edward
Folks, Is anyone out there using EMC powerpath with Windows 2008 R2, to present LUN's from an EMC SAN to servers/Clusters etc etc? My SAN Guy, basically is telling me that the role service of Multipath I/O is added to the server when the EMC Powerpath is added but when the drives

RE: EMC Powerpath and Windows 2008 R2

2010-07-29 Thread Mayo, Bill
: Thursday, July 29, 2010 8:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: EMC Powerpath and Windows 2008 R2 Folks, Is anyone out there using EMC powerpath with Windows 2008 R2, to present LUN's from an EMC SAN to servers/Clusters etc etc? My SAN Guy, basically is telling me that the role service

RE: EMC Powerpath and Windows 2008 R2

2010-07-29 Thread Ziots, Edward
Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 From: Mayo, Bill [mailto:bem...@pittcountync.gov] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 8:37 AQlogic To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: EMC Powerpath and Windows 2008 R2 I don't have PowerPath on any 2008 servers, so I can't speak to that. Are you

RE: EMC Powerpath and Windows 2008 R2

2010-07-29 Thread Jim Holmgren
: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 8:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: EMC Powerpath and Windows 2008 R2 Not using MirrorView... We have a DMX 1000 SAN, on the backend and Qlogic HBA's on the server, along with the Powerpath V5.3 SP1, which

RE: EMC Powerpath and Windows 2008 R2

2010-07-29 Thread Ziots, Edward
From: Jim Holmgren [mailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.com] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 8:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: EMC Powerpath and Windows 2008 R2 I'm running PowerPath v5.3 (build 11) on a 2008R2 server connected to my CX4-240. I haven't seen this behavior. Dell r710

RE: EMC Powerpath and Windows 2008 R2

2010-07-29 Thread Mayo, Bill
8:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: EMC Powerpath and Windows 2008 R2 Not using MirrorView... We have a DMX 1000 SAN, on the backend and Qlogic HBA's on the server, along with the Powerpath V5.3 SP1, which claims via the documentation to support Windows 2008 R2. Z Edward

RE: EMC Powerpath and Windows 2008 R2

2010-07-29 Thread Steve Kistenmacher
Issues Subject: RE: EMC Powerpath and Windows 2008 R2 I don't have PowerPath on any 2008 servers, so I can't speak to that. Are you using MirrorView? If so, it is possible that you are seeing the mirror copy of the disk as well as the original. Bill Mayo _ From: Ziots, Edward

Re: EMC Powerpath and Windows 2008 R2

2010-07-29 Thread Sean Martin
ezi...@lifespan.org wrote: Folks, Is anyone out there using EMC powerpath with Windows 2008 R2, to present LUN’s from an EMC SAN to servers/Clusters etc etc? My SAN Guy, basically is telling me that the role service of Multipath I/O is added to the server when the EMC Powerpath is added

RE: EMC Powerpath and Windows 2008 R2

2010-07-29 Thread Steven M. Caesare
AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: EMC Powerpath and Windows 2008 R2 I'm running PowerPath v5.3 (build 11) on a 2008R2 server connected to my CX4-240. I haven't seen this behavior. Dell r710 with QLogic HBAs. To the best of my understanding, you are correct - PowerPath basically

RE: EMC Powerpath and Windows 2008 R2

2010-07-29 Thread Ziots, Edward
] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 1:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: EMC Powerpath and Windows 2008 R2 I think we ARE seeing this issue. We seem to see four versions of the disc: one for each route (2 HBAs x 2 FC switches to SAN). PowerPath is new here, so trying to get

RE: EMC Powerpath and Windows 2008 R2

2010-07-29 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Thanks Edward... -sc From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 1:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: EMC Powerpath and Windows 2008 R2 We have to uninstall and then reinstall Powerpath 5.3 SP1 on ours and reboot to get it to work. Z

Re: EMC Powerpath and Windows 2008 R2

2010-07-29 Thread Sean Martin
...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 *From:* Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] *Sent:* Thursday, July 29, 2010 1:40 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: EMC Powerpath and Windows 2008 R2 I think we ARE seeing this issue. We seem to see four versions of the disc: one