MS1000 gone funny

[Stephen Jones_3]

We've recently invested in an MSA1000 with dual Fibre hubs, dual controllers and two DL380's with dual Qlogic HBA's. Have installed Windows 2000 Advanced server and secure path 4.0c SP2 and am now try to setup clustering. Both systems can see the disk no problem but after installing the cluster on a single node and then rebooting the other the disk are ripped from the active node and take by the second node.

If I boot up a single node the HBA's get a link with the hub and all's fine, as soon as I turn on the second node the HBA links are lost and all are negoticated again. This is a very low level thing as it occurs as soon as the second node is powered on.

The firmare is running the latest version released December.

Anyone else having issues.

We have three other MSA1000 configs and have never had this trouble with any of them

cheers
Ste

P.S. hope this makes senses!

[BR894765]

May be wrong cabling path to active/standby controller?

[Stephen Jones_3]

Thats what I thought at first after finding a customer alert article. Check my sanity

Cheers

[Peter Hoogenboom Sijtsm]

Hi,

Has SSP (selective storage presentation) been set up from the ACU? Default the MSA shows it's luns to all connected hosts.
Are the LUNs already known within windows before configuring clustering? If not first, make sure both single nodes see the disk (not at the same time) and give each disk the same drive letter before starting with the cluster configuration.

Hope this helps.