We ran into a very strange issue this morning with one of our Lefthand/HP iscsi SANS. We have (2) 4300 NSMs which we are slowly migrating data too from old Lefthand NSMs. We have been using the new 4300 NSMs with about a quarter of our data migrated to it for about 3 months now. We haven't had any issues.
This morning, accessing files on the NSMs was dreadfully slow. I decided to reboot the NSMs, one at a time; just to see if that would help any. In the HP Management software they came back up successfully BUT when we map drives to the shares, all we get is a blank white box within Windows Explorer. The drive maps fine, with NO contents. I also cannot write anything here either. Next thing I did was to log onto the ISCSI server and make sure everything was good to go. The old NSMS were functioning properly and so is the new one as long as you are on the Iscsi server. I can see all of the data, the shares, and I can copy data to and from this location and between SANS. As soon as we go to a workstation, we can map the drive BUT it is empty. I was on the phone with HP support for 3 hours and they said everything looks good. They said it might be a Microsoft issue, but I told them I can map to the old NSMs no problem and I could map to the new ones for the last 3 months until the reboot. They pretty much gave up. Does anyone know any Microsoft sharing issue etc that I have run into? I am pretty much at a dead-end now, unless I call PSS for $250. Thanks for any help! Bob ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
