Dear nsc, the above mentioned errors are related to a RAID controller issue, it could be a very old Firmware or an issue with the hardware itself, and for sure if there is a hardware failure then the file system or the storage in general will get affected, so the issue is related to the controller itself not DSS or Open-E, beside Areca is one of the good companies for RAID controllers, and many people face an issue with a bad controller from different brands. You can contact Areca support team and they should help you or contact your hardware team for more assistance.
I understand it's a problem with ARECA but definitly after this problem, i want that DSS stop all access of my volumes for iSCSI or NAS.
When this problem occurs, DSS stop the volume on S001 so the VM stored on it just stop and no data were lost.
Why it can do the same for all the units ?
And for info i have latest firmware ARECA.
And for OpenE when i tried to install latest V6, it just hang Ã* 72%...
Anyway i have to fix theses problems but i really consider this issue when looking for my new SAN / NAS / ESX 5 migration.
We will pass your notes to our developers, and about installing the latest V6 and it hangs at 72%, that's maybe related to the issue with the LUNs you were facing, so we recommend you to do a file system check for your system, and check that the storage disks are fine too.
You may try to install the latest V6 build on a USB stick and run the system ( as a test ) and you can apply the saved setup/configurations file to it, just to test and see if your system report any issue with the latest build (it should not), or if it's an issue related to your medium where the DSS is installed.
You can Save your configuration and setup settings from the GUI in MAINTENANCE -> miscellaneous -> Function: Save settings.
- my SATA RAID10 volume is defective. It's always go "offline", i had to remove "2 disks" to finally get back data. I came back to RAID1 volume, we'll see.
- my SATA Disk are Western Digital Caviar Black, looks like ARECA doesn't like them.
- my USB DOM "DSS Offcial" was dead too, i had to reinstall on a SAS Disk.
I just had a last one problem, when initializing the RAID1 Volume it's slowing very much the replication...
I think ARECA is just unable to mix hard drive (SATA / SAS), i will use juste one volume for my next SAN...
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