I'd beat on LH some more. Get it escalated. We have two unit, and they've been stable for over a year.
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 09:22, Chyka, Robert <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/> ~
