I have Dell Blade PEm600 and PRM610 connecting to an Equallogic PS 4000.
They all iscsi boot off the storage. When running the cluster validatioin, dell advise to
1. Bring the w2k8-cluster-witness disk online, initialize it and then set it back offline
2. Bring the w2k8-cluster-data disk online, initialize it and then set it back offline.
Then run the cluster validation, if I do this the SCSI 3 Persistent reservations pass.
But if I run validate cluster after the cluster has been created, it fails the SCSI 3 persistent test.
The error in the cluster report is:
Failed to access cluster disk 0 from node server1.play.net status 31
Cluster Disk 0 does not support Persistent Reservations. Some storage devices require specific firmware versions or settings to function properly with failover clusters. Please contact your storage administrator or storage vendor to check the configuration
of the storage to allow it to function properly with failover clusters.
I have upgraded the PS4000 firmware to the latest editio, no change.
Has anyone else see this problem. Is this how you have performed your validations?
Thanks
Nyobi