Hi,

What is the normal timeouts/outages when creating new volumes (iscsi file i/o with init), when I tried to add a new volume all VMWare servers was unresponsive / dead slow for several minutes until i canceled the creation of the new volume (they run the vms from iscsi and have esx installed localy)

Is this normal when adding a volume ? Is it possible to create volumes when a system is in use or should I turn everything off when creating a disk volume ?

The server is a Supermicro X7DWE, E5405, 8GB RAM, Adaptec 5445 SAS.
The volume that had the outage was located on a raid set using 6xSeagate Cheetah NS - 400GB SAS while the raid set I added the volume to is a set using 6xSeagate Barracuda ES.2 - 1TB SAS

In the logs I get this, I don't know if it is related
2008-11-11 21:18:58 cmnd_abort(1143) ba73cb 1 0... (0/1)
2008-11-11 21:18:53 cmnd_abort(1143) ba73c4 1 0... (1/1)
2008-11-11 21:18:52 cmnd_abort(1143) 24fbe59 1 0... (1/1)
2008-11-11 21:18:48 cmnd_abort(1143) b7d930 1 0... (1/1)
2008-11-11 21:18:43 cmnd_abort(1143) b7d8ec 1 0... (1/1)
2008-11-11 21:18:42 cmnd_abort(1143) ba73ac 1 0... (1/1)
2008-11-11 21:18:42 cmnd_abort(1143) b7d8ca 1 0... (1/1)


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Rasmus Fauske