McDeth
10-10-2008, 12:21 AM
Hi all, just popping in after a few hours of messing around trying to get iSCSI set up on my windows server.
To start, I have no background in i SCSI or any SAN infrastructure outside of the documentation that is included with the i SCSI target software I have downloaded (free windows versions SANmelody/Starwind).
I have been able to successfully set up a target on my server, and share my two logical storage drives (that are a single spanned volume in Windows) as a bridge device. I can connect to both drives from any windows machine, and access my stored files just fine. The problem comes in when I have more than one initiator trying to access files/save files over the same connection to the shared hard drives. Basically it boots the non-writing connection off, and won't come back up until I manually disconnect the iSCSI connection and reconnect it, but even then, the changes that were written by the second initiator never appear for the first computer.
Another issue I am running into is when transferring large files (over 1gb). What happens is that my computer starts to transfer the file, but it becomes unresponsive after a short time. I can't browse, or start any new applications. I've tried leaving it alone for up to 15 minutes and nothing ever happens, the i SCSI connection just sits there xfering a file at over 30MB/s, only a restart will stop the xfer.
What am I doing wrong here that is creating this problem? I realize that I'm not being too descriptive, and I apologize in advance, like I said I'm not too familiar with i SCSI. On that same vein, does anyone know of a good website/forum that deals primarily with SAN's and the configuration of i SCSI SAN's in particular?
To start, I have no background in i SCSI or any SAN infrastructure outside of the documentation that is included with the i SCSI target software I have downloaded (free windows versions SANmelody/Starwind).
I have been able to successfully set up a target on my server, and share my two logical storage drives (that are a single spanned volume in Windows) as a bridge device. I can connect to both drives from any windows machine, and access my stored files just fine. The problem comes in when I have more than one initiator trying to access files/save files over the same connection to the shared hard drives. Basically it boots the non-writing connection off, and won't come back up until I manually disconnect the iSCSI connection and reconnect it, but even then, the changes that were written by the second initiator never appear for the first computer.
Another issue I am running into is when transferring large files (over 1gb). What happens is that my computer starts to transfer the file, but it becomes unresponsive after a short time. I can't browse, or start any new applications. I've tried leaving it alone for up to 15 minutes and nothing ever happens, the i SCSI connection just sits there xfering a file at over 30MB/s, only a restart will stop the xfer.
What am I doing wrong here that is creating this problem? I realize that I'm not being too descriptive, and I apologize in advance, like I said I'm not too familiar with i SCSI. On that same vein, does anyone know of a good website/forum that deals primarily with SAN's and the configuration of i SCSI SAN's in particular?