Connecting using ISCSI to a Windows Server 2008 R2 that I just build last week.
I have installed the HIT kit and set up MPIO with Round Robin.
I have created a volume. For Access, I have limited connection by Initiator Name and by IP Address: 10.10.12.*
On the Windows server, I use the ISCSI Initiator to connect to the target four times, using the four NICs in the server:
10.10.12.208
10.10.12.209
10.10.12.210
10.10.12.211
I have saved these connections as Favorite Targets.
When I reboot the server, the connections automatically come back, however within a few minutes, these four connections are dropped and are replaced with:
10.10.12.208 and
10.10.0.104
What the heck. This last IP address is my data vlan, separate from the storage vlan.
I really can't explain why it keeps dropping the four connections I set up, and then substitutes with just those two connections, including one that isn't even on the storage vlan.
Any thoughts, comments, ideas or suggestions?
What's really weird, is this is the 2nd server in this infrastructure that I've built. The first one is working perfectly as I expect it to - the connections to the proper storage vlan IPs stay the way I configured them. But this 2nd server is behaving very unusually.
Iam not sure because we use HIT on VMware but i think there is an option to set the number of connection to a given volume. Take a look the the Remote Setup Wizard->Configure MPIO Settings.
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Posted May 27th, 2013 15:00
Iam not sure because we use HIT on VMware but i think there is an option to set the number of connection to a given volume. Take a look the the Remote Setup Wizard->Configure MPIO Settings.
Regards,
Joerg