EqualLogics woes once more
After some dancing with developers, I managed ot get some time to upgrade our EqualLogics. The main reason for teh delay was teh small number of servers that had direct attached iSCSI drives that needed to be updated to the latest HIT Kit and would therefore probably need a reboot. As it turns out, upgrading from 3.3.1 or higher to 3.5.1 didn't require a reboot. The Firmware updates went quite smoothly, this was a case of getting various polls on different updates on to the latest 5.0.7 version, including some stuck on the last version 4 release. After all the updates and server reboots I found that two servers would no longer replicate using the ASM. One was fine replicating at the EqualLogics level and just contained a bunch of flat files so I have left it as is. the other is our 2003 Exchange system. This was rather weird as the ASM was showing the iSCSI drive as "Unknown Type" and shows Exchange as being on unsupported drives. When I tried replicating the Datab...