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BL460c Gen 8 FCoE unstable...

 
ViperCag
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BL460c Gen 8 FCoE unstable...

When all else fails ask the internet. oh (insert deity of your insert choice ) I am so (radio edit)... 

 

Any Ideas... Please and Thank you.

 

Enclosure BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure G3

4 Blades

Server Blade BL460c Gen8

Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz (10 Cores) X2

131072 MB

Firmware

ProLiant BL460c Gen8

Discovered: Mon 2015-09-14 20:57:54

2015.04.01

Family: I31

2015.04.01

Family: I31  

 

Each Blade

Standalone Blades NOT ESX, NOT Virtual, for you older folks that remember magnetic audio tapes: Live not Memorex.

Windows 2012 R2 All SP/patches updated

Exchange 2013 All SP/CUs updated Hosting 8 active databases with 8 passive databases one for one

HP FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 534FLB Adapter

uefi : 7.11.8        

fcoe : 7.10.70

bootcode : 7.10.72

ccm : 7.10.72

pxe : 7.10.72

iscsi : 7.10.33

 

NetApp SAN FCoE

FAS8000 – 8040

8.2.3

Nexus 5K switch

 

Issue:

Exchange databases fail over (at random) to the passive database.

At times only one in a day, up to three a day, some days none.

But over a two week time frame all database affected.

No abnormal events logged on blade

No abnormal events logged on Enclosure

No abnormal events logged on NetApp

Only Windows OS events logged, no help.

 

No I am not really NASA.

Log Name:      Application

Source:        ESE

Date:          9/28/2015 6:37:46 AM

Event ID:      533

Task Category: General

Level:         Warning

Keywords:      Classic

User:          N/A

Computer:      ExchangeSRV3.NASA.gov

Description:

Information Store - XDB1 (12328) XDB1: A request to write to the file "R:\XDB1_db\XDB1.edb" at offset 802991439872 (0x000000baf6050000) for 98304 (0x00018000) bytes has not completed for 28 second(s). This problem is likely due to faulty hardware. Please contact your hardware vendor for further assistance diagnosing the problem.

 

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Event Xml:

<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">

  <System>

    <Provider Name="ESE" />

    <EventID Qualifiers="0">533</EventID>

    <Level>3</Level>

    <Task>1</Task>

    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>

    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-09-28T13:37:46.000000000Z" />

    <EventRecordID>1025347</EventRecordID>

    <Channel>Application</Channel>

    <Computer>ExchangeSRV3.NASA.gov</Computer>

    <Security />

  </System>

  <EventData>

    <Data>Information Store - XDB1</Data>

    <Data>12328</Data>

    <Data>XDB1: </Data>

    <Data>R:\XDB1_db\XDB1.edb</Data>

    <Data>802991439872 (0x000000baf6050000)</Data>

    <Data>98304 (0x00018000)</Data>

    <Data>28</Data>

  </EventData>

</Event>

 

 

Log Name:      Application

Source:        ESE

Date:          9/28/2015 6:37:53 AM

Event ID:      489

Task Category: General

Level:         Error

Keywords:      Classic

User:          N/A

Computer:      ExchangeSRV3.NASA.gov

Description:

msexchangerepl (10256) An attempt to open the file "R:\XDB1_logs\E03.log" for read only access failed with system error 32 (0x00000020): "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. ".  The open file operation will fail with error -1032 (0xfffffbf8).

 

For more information, click http://www.microsoft.com/contentredirect.asp.

Event Xml:

<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">

  <System>

    <Provider Name="ESE" />

    <EventID Qualifiers="0">489</EventID>

    <Level>2</Level>

    <Task>1</Task>

    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>

    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-09-28T13:37:53.000000000Z" />

    <EventRecordID>1025348</EventRecordID>

    <Channel>Application</Channel>

    <Computer>ExchangeSRV3.NASA.gov</Computer>

    <Security />

  </System>

  <EventData>

    <Data>msexchangerepl</Data>

    <Data>10256</Data>

    <Data>

    </Data>

    <Data>R:\XDB1_logs\E03.log</Data>

    <Data>-1032 (0xfffffbf8)</Data>

    <Data>32 (0x00000020)</Data>

    <Data>The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. </Data>

  </EventData>

</Event>

 

 

Log Name:      Application

Source:        ExchangeStoreDB

Date:          9/28/2015 6:38:03 AM

Event ID:      152

Task Category: Database recovery

Level:         Error

Keywords:      Classic

User:          N/A

Computer:      ExchangeSRV3.NASA.gov

Description:

At '9/28/2015 6:37:46 AM' the Exchange store database 'XDB1' copy on this server detected a Hung IO and logged an event. For more details about the failure, consult the Event log on the server for other storage and "ExchangeStoreDb" events. If this was the active copy at the time of the error, a successful failover restored service.

Event Xml:

<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">

  <System>

    <Provider Name="ExchangeStoreDB" />

    <EventID Qualifiers="49156">152</EventID>

    <Level>2</Level>

    <Task>1</Task>

    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>

    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-09-28T13:38:03.000000000Z" />

    <EventRecordID>1025355</EventRecordID>

    <Channel>Application</Channel>

    <Computer>ExchangeSRV3.NASA.gov</Computer>

    <Security />

  </System>

  <EventData>

    <Data>XDB1</Data>

    <Data>66a758de-3d40-4891-a3cc-d623f46b3e58</Data>

    <Data>Ese</Data>

    <Data>HungIoLowThreshold</Data>

    <Data>XDB1</Data>

    <Data>

    </Data>

    <Data>

    </Data>

    <Data>9/28/2015 6:37:46 AM</Data>

    <Data>Write</Data>

    <Data>R:\XDB1_db\XDB1.edb</Data>

    <Data>802991439872</Data>

    <Data>98304</Data>

  </EventData>

</Event>

 

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ViperCag
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Re: BL460c Gen 8 FCoE unstable... Resolved sort of…

 

Switch all four blades off FCoE to plain old Fiber Channel. More that a week ago all databases have stabilized.

 

not what i wanted to do but poo happens.