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iSCSI san disk is appearing and disappearing again and again in VEA

Created: 13 Apr 2012 | Updated: 25 May 2012
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Environment

SFHA = 5.1SP2 (64bit)

OS = Win2008R2 (64bit)

 

Problem

My iSCSI san drive (size is 300GB) is again and again appearing and disappearing in VEA. If I mount this same drive on another computer then all things are fine. iscsi initiator is connected persistently and no sign appearing of connection/dissection under iscsi initiator. See the below snap for reference:

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My problem is resolved via

My problem is resolved via another way. I actually create a datastore on esxi server and add the LUN to that datastore.

Then I created an additional Hard Disk on the VM and pointed the hard disk storage space towards the data store. Kindly find the below link for snaps for a reference so that this Idea may help others who may face the LUN appearing and disappearing on a Windows 2008R2 machine :

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverfiles/thread/7ac393ec-b9ea-43c0-b2fd-895857c65ecb

 

 

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My problem is resolved via

My problem is resolved via another way. I actually create a datastore on esxi server and add the LUN to that datastore.

Then I created an additional Hard Disk on the VM and pointed the hard disk storage space towards the data store. Kindly find the below link for snaps for a reference so that this Idea may help others who may face the LUN appearing and disappearing on a Windows 2008R2 machine :

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverfiles/thread/7ac393ec-b9ea-43c0-b2fd-895857c65ecb

 

 

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