I opened a support ticket 2 hours ago and still waiting for a ticket number so I thought I would throw this out here.
I have 2 DSS's and am using autofailover. Yesterday the secondary was taken down (just pressed shutdown, did not stop any tasks) so that I could move the motherboard and disks to a new bigger server case. All this time the primary DSS was working great and everybody was connected and happy. I was getting errors that the replication was down and it was in degraded state byt still working. Everything was successful with rebuilding the secondary box and so I added it to the network and powered it up.
When I did this some Linux iscsi connected servers freaked out and stopped working. its like they did not know where to connect to. They would not work until I shut down the secondary DSS and did a iscsi restart on the linux servers. I had a windows server connect to DSS primary as well and it did not seem to have a problem with me bring up this secondary DSS.
So my dilema is this. What did I do wrong in bringing the secondary down initially. Should I have stopped services on the Primary or what? What is the correct procedure for downing secondary
Second question is how do I recover. How do I bring up the secondary DSS box without screwing up the Linux servers?
The secondary server has the same everything, usb dom, disk controller, all the network cards, all the same disks, just moved it to a bigger case to match the primary DSS so I could add more disks and have the setup be identical between the 2 DSS's in the autofailover.
Thanks!