Problems with accessing via 2008 R2

[webguyz]

Have working DSS V6 and it works great with 2008 Standard Hyper-V guest. I installed 2008 R2 on a server to start testing and it will not initialize a volume I have selected as a target. I can connect, but when I try to initialize it just seems to lock up. Tried another cable and NIC in my test system (Broadcom Gigabit) which is the same as I use in my standard 2008 Hyper-V systems, but no such luck.

Has anyone installed R2 and able to successfully connect to DSS V6 and initialize a volume? I'm running out of things to try on my end. Was working so well with non R2 I was suprised that I've spent days on this to no avail.



Thanks!

[pfeifferl]

Hello,

yes, I run Windows 2008 Server R2 without this kind of issues. Maybe a problem with your NIC, R2 has other drivers than "R1" (like Windows 7 / Vista)?? Check another NIC (Intel ...) or a new R2 driver from Broadcom. Or do you use the onboard NIC driver from Windows?

You should also post your question on MS TechNet board: >> http://social.technet.microsoft.com/.../windowsserver

It seems not to be a specific DSS/open-e problem ...

BTW: It's great that more and more Windows 2008/Hyper-V users are coming to open-e - if there are more requests, open-e should put there focus more on MS community's needs!

[webguyz]

I've been using Broadcom cards in all our servers and the same model works fine with non-R2 2008 iscsi. Have the latest drivers and installed a known working nic,cable. Very wierd.

Will have to get another model and see if it works.

Thanks

[webguyz]

Doah! When I was looking for the latest Broadcom drivers my eyes stopped at the 2008 x64 drivers and did not see the 2008 R2 x64 drivers right below that one.

[webguyz]

Acutally, the problem turned out I was trying to access a target with 2 different initiators on 2 servers. All kinds of strangeness on the server occurs when this happens. After I realized my mistake and fixed by using more descriptive target names, its now working correctly. Getting 230 mbps during file copies and loving it.

I would have thought Windows would have generated an error but I guess it has no idea if that target is running some kind of software to allow access from multiple initiators.