Operating System perform a CHKDSK on a Vdisk of the EVA

[Renato Gil]

I´ve a Win 2003 STD R2 server with conexion to a EVA 4100, the HBA is a EMulex A8002A model,

The problem is that everytime we reboot de server the OS perform a CHKDSK on a several virtual disk presented to this server, and this is a serios problem to me.

I let the OS complete de CHKDSK, witch took 48 hrs, and does not correct the problem.

What i can do to avoid this problem no longer happen?

[Terri Harris]

Is Windows booting from the EVA? Or is this simply data storage for Windows?

[Renato Gil]

The Windows is booting from a local hard disk, the virtual disks are only for storage data.

This server have presented 20 virtual disks, and the SO perform a CHKDSK on 14 VDisks.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[kris rombauts]

Hi,

can you check the system.evt log file to verify if the shutdown/reboot occured properly ? I seem to remember a shutdown/reboot issue with the storport driver that caused this kind of issue (dirty shutdown bit not cleared).


If you don't see the three event id's with informational level:

- 6006 : Eventlog service stopped
- 6009 :
- 6005 : Eventlog service started

but i.e. event id 6008, then something goes wrong at shutdown time.
Pls provide the version of the storport.sys driver also.


HTH

Kris

[Uwe Zessin]

Check the presentation of the virtual disks - they MUST NOT be presented to a second Windows server, e.g. for backup.