SCSI-3 Persistent Reservation Error - Hyper-V Cluster with MSA 2060

[ccsdtech]

I am attempting to create a Hyper-V cluster on Windows Server 2025. My two hosts are DL360 Gen11 and storage is MSA 2060 SAS. The servers are connected directly to the MSA... server 1 to ports A1 and B1, and server 2 to ports A3 and B3. The hosts are configured and grouped properly in the MSA. Volumes are created and mapped to the hosts.

When I run the Hyper-V cluster validation, I am receiving SCSI-3 Persistent Reservation errors on the three volumes from the MSA as shown below. Does the MSA 2060 support persistent reservations and if so how do I enable that feature? Thanks for any help!

Node CCSDVM4.clairton.local successfully issued call to Persistent Reservation RESERVE for Test Disk 1 which is currently reserved by node CCSDVM5.clairton.local. This call is expected to fail.
Node CCSDVM4.clairton.local successfully issued call to Persistent Reservation RESERVE for Test Disk 0 which is currently reserved by node CCSDVM5.clairton.local. This call is expected to fail.
Node CCSDVM4.clairton.local successfully issued call to Persistent Reservation RESERVE for Test Disk 2 which is currently reserved by node CCSDVM5.clairton.local. This call is expected to fail.
Test Disk 0 does not provide Persistent Reservations support for the mechanisms used by failover clusters. Some storage devices require specific firmware versions or settings to function properly with failover clusters. Please contact your storage administrator or storage vendor to check the configuration of the storage to allow it to function properly with failover clusters.
Test Disk 1 does not provide Persistent Reservations support for the mechanisms used by failover clusters. Some storage devices require specific firmware versions or settings to function properly with failover clusters. Please contact your storage administrator or storage vendor to check the configuration of the storage to allow it to function properly with failover clusters.
Test Disk 2 does not provide Persistent Reservations support for the mechanisms used by failover clusters. Some storage devices require specific firmware versions or settings to function properly with failover clusters. Please contact your storage administrator or storage vendor to check the configuration of the storage to allow it to function properly with failover clusters.

[BPSingh · Accepted solution]

The MSA is a block-level device and does not provide an option to enable or disable persistent reservations. This issue needs to be investigated at the operating system level.

[ccsdtech]

Thanks for the reply. I was actually just able to get this resolved yesterday by reinstalling Windows Server on the hosts. I think the issue may have originated due to incorrect SAS cabling between the hosts and the MSA during initial configuration. I did eventually correct that, but I think MPIO in Windows was already confused/broken by then. In any case, I'm good now. Thanks!

[Sunitha_Mod]

Hello @ccsdtech,

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