Dell connectivity issues connecting to eva8100

[Clint Placette_2]

DEll poweredge models 6400, 6650, 6650
Connected to a EVA3K and EVA81K
The 8K is new to the mix.

Each Dell W2K server has SP 4.0c
MPIO DSM mgr 2.00.01 and Fullfeature 2.01.01
FCA (2404)SCSI miniport v5-5.20.A10 FV1.91A5
(v5-5.30.
I can see the disk in device mgr.
Dell has a disk manager which allows me to partition disk and the disk appears be normal but when I look in W2k file explorer the disk does not show up. This is first time working with Dells and they do not behave the same way a HP servers does.

Example with out install MPIO when I present a disk to the server I see the instance multple time (which I expect). The disk manger only sees the disk once. Is there a another manufacuter compatability list conecting to EVA's ? I don't see anything in SAW or streams.

[Uwe Zessin]

Do you have a recent version of Secure Path? Early versions did not provide co-existence with MPIO.

Do you happen to login via RDP? It is sometimes necessary to do a new login to see devices.

[Clint Placette_2]

Two good points

I may have the fix. On the W2K servers I upgrades SP4.0c to SP4.0c sp2-1. That seem to have fix the issue.

I won't know if the problem is fix on W2K3 until tonight when I can get the chance to bounce the prodution box.

Yes I was using RDP. But that dosen't seem to be the issue.

[Stephen Kebbell]

Hi,

just a note about the Windows 2000 servers. If you are working via a Terminal Session, any new disks will not appear in Windows Explorer until you logout and log back in again. It's a bug in Win2K Terminal Server. With Win2003 this problem does not occur.

Regards,
Stephen

[Rob Leadbeater]

Hi,

I seem to recall that Dell replace the standard windows disk manager with an alternative that hooks in to their PERC RAID controllers...

This might have something to do with the problem.

Cheers,

Rob