I will. They are blaming Microsoft.....But I don't think it is solely a Microsoft issue.
-----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 1:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Lefthand/HP Iscsi San Issue 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/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
