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  If I restart the server that is attached to it, the question usually begins without having to wait a few hours.

  I changed out Ethernet cables, and it did not help.  Either way, it all started when we changed the MD3000i attached to hosts.  It was attached to two Dell servers, now it is only attached to one.

  After looking through everything, it seems that the iSCSI initiator is configured incorrectly. It seems that you only have one configuration of IP and the MD has two available. Here is a link that has a step by step on setting up the MD3000i and the MPIO.

  http://paulgrevink.WordPress.com/2012/02/21/configure-Dell-MD3000i-MPIO-with-Windows-2008-R2/

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  The "EVANS - WHS 2011-0.vmdk" file is a virtual hard disk of metadata, which is a pointer to a physical hard disk and you are not supposed to suspend, snapshot, a Virtual Machine that uses a raw disk such as this and the physical drive could trash making!

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• External hard disks do not appear in Windows Explorer

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  I'm sorry for the late reply.

  I suggest you try the following steps and check if it helps.

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  I hope this helps.

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• Virtual disk MD3000i not on the path preferred because of the AVT/RDAC failover

  Hello

  I am having some problems with my MD3000i failover to a non-prefere path.

  The MD3000i up the old mistake "Not on virtual disk preferred path due the AVT/RDAC failover" several times a day.

  It happened from time to time with ESX 3.5, but not much more happenging with version 4.

  In the var, I get the following:

  24 July 11:49:12 tdvserver1 vobd: 24 Jul 11:49:12.926: 355597326227us: http://vprob.storage.redundancy.degraded redundant path to the storage device degraded naa.6001e4f000436ab80000067c48281b88. Vmhba40:C2:t0:L2 path is down. 2 remaining active paths. Touch of data warehouses: «DataStore3 - MD3000i (1 mb)»

  24 July 11:49:12 tdvserver1 vobd: 24 Jul 11:49:12.934: 355597333792us: http://vprob.storage.redundancy.degraded redundant path to the storage device degraded naa.6001e4f000438fa20000068b482818af. Vmhba40:C2:t0:L3 path is down. 2 remaining active paths. Touch of data warehouses: «DataStore4 - MD3000i (8 MB)»

  24 July 11:49:12 tdvserver1 vobd: 24 Jul 11:49:12.942: 355597341892us: http://vprob.storage.redundancy.degraded redundant path to the storage device degraded naa.6001e4f000436ab8000017ae48d8991a. Vmhba40:C2:t0:L4 path is down. 2 remaining active paths. Touch of data warehouses: «DataStore1 - MD3000i (1 mb)»

  24 July 11:49:12 tdvserver1 vobd: 24 Jul 11:49:12.949: 355597348866us: http://vprob.storage.redundancy.degraded redundant path to the storage device degraded naa.6001e4f000438fa20000170448d8965d. Vmhba40:C2:t0:L5 path is down. 2 remaining active paths. Touch of data warehouses: «DataStore2 - MD3000i (1 mb)»

  24 July 11:49:12 tdvserver1 vobd: 24 Jul 11:49:12.995: 355597394915us: http://vprob.storage.redundancy.degraded redundant path to the storage device degraded naa.6001e4f000436ab800002d8149242090. Vmhba40:C2:t0:L7 path is down. 2 remaining active paths. Touch of data warehouses: «VDIStore2 - MD3000i (1 mb)»

  24 July 11:49:13 tdvserver1 vobd: 24 Jul 11:49:13.004: 355597404112us: http://vprob.storage.redundancy.degraded redundant path to the storage device degraded naa.6001e4f000436ab800003d4c4a2ba941. Vmhba40:C2:t0:L8 path is down. 2 remaining active paths. Touch of data warehouses: «VDIStore1 - MD3000i (2 MB)»

  24 July 11:49:13 tdvserver1 vobd: 24 Jul 11:49:13.013: 355597413405us: http://vprob.storage.redundancy.degraded redundant path to the storage device degraded naa.6001e4f000436ab800006a5e4a6474e4. Vmhba40:C2:t0:L9 path is down. 2 remaining active paths. Touch of data warehouses: unknown.

  24 July 11:49:13 tdvserver1 vobd: 24 July 11:49:13.020: 355597420334us: connectivity lost http://vprob.storage.connectivity.lost to naa.6001e4f000436ab800006b684a65595d of storage device. Vmhba40:C2:t0:L10 path is down. Touch of data warehouses: «DataStore5 - MD3000i (4 MB)»

  24 July 11:49:17 tdvserver1 vobd: 24 July 11:49:17.375: 355601775018us: http://vprob.vmfs.heartbeat.timedout 49248754-672e53f0 - 38 b 7-00151778736 d VDIStore2 - MD3000i (1 MB).

  24 July 11:49:22 tdvserver1 vobd: 24 July 11:49:22.006: 355606406026us: http://vprob.vmfs.heartbeat.recovered 49248754-672e53f0 - 38 b 7-00151778736 d VDIStore2 - MD3000i (1 MB).

  And the following in/var/log/vmkernel:

  July 24, 11:51:03 tdvserver1 vmkernel: 4:02:48:27.601 cpu7:4206) WARNING: NMP: nmp_DeviceAttemptFailover: try tipping unit "naa.6001e4f000436ab800002d8149242090" world - order 0x41000812bc80

  July 24, 11:51:03 tdvserver1 vmkernel: 4:02:48:27.601 cpu2:6691) NMP: nmp_CompleteRetryForPath: Retry world the component 'naa.6001e4f000436ab800002d8149242090 '.

  July 24, 11:51:06 tdvserver1 vmkernel: 4:02:48:30.549 cpu0:4107) NMP: nmp_CompleteCommandForPath: command 0 x 12 (0x4100081c8300) for device NMP 'mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0' failed on the physical path 'vmhba32:C0:T0:L0' H:0 x 0 D:0 x 2 P:0 x 0 valid sense data: 0 x 5 0 x 24 0 x 0.

  July 24, 11:51:06 tdvserver1 vmkernel: 4:02:48:30.549 cpu0:4107) ScsiDeviceIO: 747: command 0 x 12 for the device "mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0" has no sense H:0 x 0 D:0 x 2 P:0 x 0 valid data: 0 x 5 24 0 x 0 x 0.

  July 24, 11:51:06 tdvserver1 vmkernel: 4:02:48:30.693 cpu1:4097) NMP: nmp_CompleteCommandForPath: command 0 x 12 (0 x 410008106500) for device "mpx.vmhba33:C0:T0:L0" NMP failed on the physical path 'vmhba33:C0:T0:L0' H:0 x 0 D:0 x 2 P:0 x 0 valid sense data: 0 x 5 0 24 x 0 x 0.

  July 24, 11:51:06 tdvserver1 vmkernel: 4:02:48:30.693 cpu1:4097) ScsiDeviceIO: 747: command 0 x 12 for device "mpx.vmhba33:C0:T0:L0" has no sense H:0 x 0 D:0 x 2 P:0 0 valid x-data: 0 x 5 0 24 x 0 x 0.

  July 24, 11:51:13 tdvserver1 vmkernel: 4:02:48:38.059 cpu0:4107) NMP: nmp_CompleteCommandForPath: command 0 x 12 (0x41000811f800) for device NMP 'mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0' failed on the physical path 'vmhba32:C0:T0:L0' H:0 x 0 D:0 x 2 P:0 x 0 valid sense data: 0 x 5 0 x 24 0 x 0.

  July 24, 11:51:13 tdvserver1 vmkernel: 4:02:48:38.059 cpu0:4107) ScsiDeviceIO: 747: command 0 x 12 for the device "mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0" has no sense H:0 x 0 D:0 x 2 P:0 x 0 valid data: 0 x 5 24 0 x 0 x 0.

  July 24, 11:51:13 tdvserver1 vmkernel: 4:02:48:38.202 cpu1:4097) NMP: nmp_CompleteCommandForPath: command 0 x 12 (0x4100081d2300) for device "mpx.vmhba33:C0:T0:L0" NMP failed on the physical path 'vmhba33:C0:T0:L0' H:0 x 0 D:0 x 2 P:0 x 0 valid sense data: 0 x 5 0 24 x 0 x 0.

  July 24, 11:51:13 tdvserver1 vmkernel: 4:02:48:38.202 cpu1:4097) ScsiDeviceIO: 747: command 0 x 12 for device "mpx.vmhba33:C0:T0:L0" has no sense H:0 x 0 D:0 x 2 P:0 0 valid x-data: 0 x 5 0 24 x 0 x 0.

  I spoke with people from Dell and Vmware support.

  Support for VMWare counterpart said that it is a matter of Dell... that VMware is a path problem and do what it is supposed to do.

  The Dell guy says there is nothing wrong with the MD3000i and the problem is with VMWare.

  None of them seem interested in helping me out more.

  I tried using MRU (default) & political pathing Round-Robin and set up iscsi on the host esx, in accordance with the following document:

  http://www.delltechcenter.com/page/VMware ESX4.0andPowerVault MD3000i

  I can vmkping for all the guests of all the peoples on the MD3000i without any problem.

  If someone saw, I would be very grateful.

  Thank you

  Jason

  Hmmm...  Well, if they are flipping back has nothing to do with VMWare, it is certainly a matter of Dell.  Have you tried their repatriation to the correct drives and then just reboot the stupid thing?

  Jason Litka

  http://www.jasonlitka.com

• Determine which VM virtual disk represents what volume of Windows

  I couldn't understand it. Customer has a WIndows 2003-based virtual computer with 2 extra virtual drives of 500 GB. One is a d: volume one is a volume E:. They asked for the volume D: be expanded to 100 GB. After watching it for a few minutes, I couldn't understand how knowing who was who. I ended up guess assuming D: is the drive number. I it increased from 1 GB to check and I have just guessed so I've finished adding the 99 remaining GB.

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