Hi All,
I have 2xHS22v IBM Blades that I am using for a SQL2008R2 SP2 installation. These two blades (BladeA & BladeB for the purpose of this example) have Windows Server 2008R2 Enterprise SP1 and have been clustered (Validation report ok's everything). these two servers have the same exact hardware QLOGIC QMi2582 cards that connect to an EMC Clarion SAN. They both have the latest drivers, firmware updates and such on the cards and operating system (contacted IBM to verify) and they both have EMC powerpath installed V5.5SP01 b521 to manage SAn communication.
The problem is that when I boot the blade up with the "cluster service" set in automatic in BladeA (Standby/Passive node), I immediately get the following events in the system logs:
Event 118 ql2300 - "The driver for \Device\RaidPort0 Performed a bus reset upon request"
This in turn makes the Disk management (Virtual Disk Service (VDS)) unable to see the disks that BadeB has in use (They should come up listed as inactive/Offline).
If I stop and disable the disk service from starting up, and reboot the blade, once it boots up I can see all my disks listed with no problem. If I enable the cluster service, within seconds the VDS becomes unavailable and I get at the bottom of the page, but with no disks listed:
"Connecting to virtual Disk Service."
I am going nuts with this issue now that I have no node to failover to in case of a problem with the current active node. I have engaged MSFT but havent had much luck. Any input would be extremely appreciated!
Thanks,