Host not establishing iSCSI session with one controller on E-Series causes disk access failures
Applies to
- E-Series
- Windows Server with SANtricity Windows DSM
- iSCSI-connected environments with multipath/failover configurations
Issue
- After a server reboot, disk access failures occur on a virtual machine using iSCSI-connected E-Series storage.
- The following errors frequently appear in Windows event logs:
- Source: iScsiPrt Event IDs: 1, 20, 34
- Source: mpio Event IDs: 16, 17, 32
- DSM Operational Log: xxxx-Multipath-Dsm IDs: 1067, 1450
- Additional Findings:
dsmUtil.exe -a [WWN/iSCSIName]output on the specified host only lists Controller A, not Controller B.- Another host does not exhibit the issue.
- Recovery Guru entries:
- NON_PREFERRED_PATH (Code: 10)
- HOST_REDUNDANCY_LOST (Code: 475), Affected host: <the specified host name>, Affected controller: Controller in bay B
