blackrabbit
IS-IT--Management
I'm working on a project that seems to be getting more and more difficult as it goes. I'm new to the md3000i so I might be missing something. I'm using the Dell Modular Disk Storage Client to get into the array and create luns and what not, very easy. The problem is that when I create a disk group suing say 20 physical disks with a total capacity of 7TB it won't let me create LUNS bigger than 2TB.
One the server accessing that LUN I'm using the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator to access the san. I created 3 2TB luns on the array and made them dynamic disks on the server so I could make a huge 6TB spanned drive. It works great until I reboot the server. On reboot the disk is not mounted and I have to manually mount the disk everytime. I read some articles that stated I should make the server service dependent on the MSISCI server so the initiator stars before the server service. That didn't work. Then I read that the MS iSCSI Initiator doesn't support dynamic disks so I can't make a huge 6GB spanned volume and well I need one.
I can't get the md30001 to make luns bigger than 2TB so I can't make one giant LUN either. Does anyone know how to make the dell md3000i allow luns bigger than 2TB?
One the server accessing that LUN I'm using the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator to access the san. I created 3 2TB luns on the array and made them dynamic disks on the server so I could make a huge 6TB spanned drive. It works great until I reboot the server. On reboot the disk is not mounted and I have to manually mount the disk everytime. I read some articles that stated I should make the server service dependent on the MSISCI server so the initiator stars before the server service. That didn't work. Then I read that the MS iSCSI Initiator doesn't support dynamic disks so I can't make a huge 6GB spanned volume and well I need one.
I can't get the md30001 to make luns bigger than 2TB so I can't make one giant LUN either. Does anyone know how to make the dell md3000i allow luns bigger than 2TB?