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HP has an advisory for the SATA disks and Smart Array controller I was using.
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What raid controller are you using and what firmware version is it at?
I've had lots of issues with previous firmware versions (3.66 and 2.00) for HP Smart Array P410 when using SATA disks.

I am suspecting hp's firmware. There are some updates to be applied.
It looks like their smart array controller does not play nicely with sata disks.

The confusing part is that they have two...

I had also deleted some snapshots recently

I've noticed the vmware/lun locking tends up happen when very disk intensive operations are attempted.

I believe the November problem happened when I was experimenting with an offsite backup job....

what type of devices are your ping nodes and why are they on your iscsi subnet?
I'm guessing it could be that iscsi traffic is drowning out your pings to your ping nodes. Try finding some switches...

The other weird things:

1. Failover would not finish

2. The Primary node was showing more than one iscsi connection per lun per client. (Under Maintenance connections). Now it only has one...

The only thing that seems strange to me is to bond two nics and them have the connect to two different Switches.

I guess this is possible, but I'm not sure the advantage, especialy if you are...

perhaps you could test a similar scenario in vmware. Create a vswtich with no real nics on it and test a similar scenario.
One thing that would worry me about this is preventing the nic cards from...

I've got Auxillary connection set on the Virtual IP interfaces, Management interfaces, and the replication intefaces.

I noticed on the Secondary Node that I have eth0 and eth3 set as bonds. I'm...

Pre-Phase: tried using Openfiler on desktops as servers, worked pretty well.
TestPhase: Tried OpenFiler on 2 HP DL 185 G5's with a HP Smartarry P410 with 512MB BBW: Got "false" HD failures that...

It could be a few things:
1. make sure your nics are the ones you think they are. what you assume is eth0 could really be eth3. and they may not be consistent across both servers

2. Verify your...

After re-reading your original request, You could use two separate controllers if you virtualize the entire setup. You still will need two Open-e Licenses.

Why would you not just use raid 10? Your other option might maybe sort of be to create a VM to replicate to. Use local HD's (DAS) in your virtual host and replicated to the physical Open-e Box. I...

Don't forget to Run sync volumes on the Secondary and verify it has completed before hit Failback. It normally warns you before.

I was worried about that, but each vhost has a different Active I/O path. One has the active I/O on the node's physical ip and the other host is to the virtual ip.

I see now that I accidentally setup multi-pathing, which is good. I don't think there are any problems.

Upon further review, it looks like this is by design and probably is not hurting anything. I think the only time this caused a problem is when I started the iscsi service on both of my open-e nodes.

Yes, it does an automatic configuration of the drive so no matter how big, the first hard drive gets used only has a boot partition/OS.

This means the first drive has the Operating System and you cannot do anything else with that first drive.

You could just buy a small flash USB drive and make that your boot volume and then make a...

Open-e only works with "physical volumes" or what it sees as physical volumes. If you've made a raid-0 with two drives, you are presenting one Volume that Open-e sees as one physical volume.

The...

In my Vsphere client, I only entered the virtual ip of my Open-E cluster in dynamic discovery for iscsi targers. However, in the static discovery, it shows the ip of all other ip's on the Active...

I have to update the firmware on my Array controller (HP Smart Array 410 512 BBWC). Is it best that I take both of my DSS down when I do this? I'm worried there will be problems with replication if...

Hmmm, are you trying to create your own config file? You can just use the gui tools (forgive my guiness) in CentOS. Under Applications system tools there should be a Virtual Machine manager. Also, it...

Make sure in your bios that you have enabled Vt-x for Intel OR SVM for AMD in the bios. Sometimes it's under Security settings.

You can also try Full Virtualization, which you will need to set...