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ksnary
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Tue Oct 02, 2012 9:31 pm

I am running Starwind 6.0 on a Windows Server 2008 R2, and access it with VMWare ESXI 4.1

I have 4 targets attached to 4 de dup devices setup and 10 blades accessing the 4 targets

Seemingly out of the blue after about 2 months of working fine the ESXI could not see the targets, I could ping from the server to the blades no problem.

I rebooted the Server with Starwind installed upon the server rebooting I connected to the console and the devices were VERY slowly mounting one at a time, and under device state it said creating.

Once the mounting completed the ESXI could see the datastore it showed that space has been used i.e. Size 2.0 TB Free 1.8 TB however the datastore browser is blank with no files

Have I lost the data?
ksnary
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Tue Oct 02, 2012 10:23 pm

The other targets are still trying to mount and are going VERY slowly after reaching 80%
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Anatoly (staff)
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Fri Oct 05, 2012 12:52 pm

I have some clarification questions if you don`t mind:
-Can you confirm that you have enough of free space on the volume where the Dedup related files are stored?
-Have you mentioned if there were some hardware failure on the StarWind server?
Best regards,
Anatoly Vilchinsky
Global Engineering and Support Manager
www.starwind.com
av@starwind.com
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