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HP ML350 G4 windows 2003 Storage server sp1 Hangs with out any error
Hi
We have ML350 G4 windows 2003 storage server with SP1. it has 4GB of RAM and
RAID 1 & 5 configured.
We are having a problem on this server hanging from very beginning and HP
support has changed motherboard, RAM still hanging(we can not really say when
this server hangs mostly when we needed most). We did test with HP's test
software and doesn't show any error on hardware. As this is our main file
server we thought we restart (scheduled) server every morning this will go
away but no success.
We were wondering if any one could suggest what we can do here. We have
latest drivers from HP installed.
Thank you in advance
We have ML350 G4 windows 2003 storage server with SP1. it has 4GB of RAM and
RAID 1 & 5 configured.
We are having a problem on this server hanging from very beginning and HP
support has changed motherboard, RAM still hanging(we can not really say when
this server hangs mostly when we needed most). We did test with HP's test
software and doesn't show any error on hardware. As this is our main file
server we thought we restart (scheduled) server every morning this will go
away but no success.
We were wondering if any one could suggest what we can do here. We have
latest drivers from HP installed.
Thank you in advance
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Hi Darwinian999
Thanks for your reply.. we do not have very good experience with HP support though. We have support agreement of 24/7 but if we log a call around 3:00pm we never get a call back till next day afternoon and forget about them calling back in weekend if that falls on weekend.............. we are having problem with this serve from very first day we received... seems like we will have never ending problem with this server.
any way i went through the KB articles you send me and we seems to have same situation as describe on KB "http://support.microsoft.com/kb/890018/en-us " we have asked microsoft to send us hotfix for this. we will see if that make any difference.
Thank you
Thanks for your reply.. we do not have very good experience with HP support though. We have support agreement of 24/7 but if we log a call around 3:00pm we never get a call back till next day afternoon and forget about them calling back in weekend if that falls on weekend.............. we are having problem with this serve from very first day we received... seems like we will have never ending problem with this server.
any way i went through the KB articles you send me and we seems to have same situation as describe on KB "http://support.microsoft.com/kb/890018/en-us " we have asked microsoft to send us hotfix for this. we will see if that make any difference.
Thank you
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Hi guys
sorry I actually forgotten to mention that KB links were sent by "TheCleaner" and thanks "Thecleaner" once again.
sorry I actually forgotten to mention that KB links were sent by "TheCleaner" and thanks "Thecleaner" once again.
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Hi
We went through KB article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/890018/en-us and downloaded the hotfix only to find out this hotfix was already included in SP1. Situation describe on KB article and our is pretty much similer.
We still have same problem and microsoft advice us to dig around to see if there is any other patch...
Any other idea?
Thank you
We went through KB article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/890018/en-us and downloaded the hotfix only to find out this hotfix was already included in SP1. Situation describe on KB article and our is pretty much similer.
We still have same problem and microsoft advice us to dig around to see if there is any other patch...
Any other idea?
Thank you
Well:
Date Time Version Size File name
--------------------------
15-Jan-2005 03:57 5.2.3790.251 144,384 Dmio.sys
Can you confirm that you have ^^^ that file with that size and version number?
Just to be sure.
Also, is that the case that you have an NFS share with quotas enabled or is it just "similar" to that?? That hotfix is pretty specific in what it does.
Is this your posts? http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.server.general/browse_thread/thread/9e0e0d533a1a387f/ff9f7d374f31f274%23ff9f7d374f31f274
Also, is it possible to upgrade to R2 of storage server? Do you have Software Assurance?
Date Time Version Size File name
--------------------------
15-Jan-2005 03:57 5.2.3790.251 144,384 Dmio.sys
Can you confirm that you have ^^^ that file with that size and version number?
Just to be sure.
Also, is that the case that you have an NFS share with quotas enabled or is it just "similar" to that?? That hotfix is pretty specific in what it does.
Is this your posts? http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.server.general/browse_thread/thread/9e0e0d533a1a387f/ff9f7d374f31f274%23ff9f7d374f31f274
Also, is it possible to upgrade to R2 of storage server? Do you have Software Assurance?
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Well we found dmio.sys in two places (c:\windows\servicepackfil
This server is NAS box from HP so it came by default NFS enabled but we haven't done any changes with NFS. One of the reason we haven't disabled NFS as we are on the process of allowing linux(Fedora) clients to access this file server.
Yes http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.server.general/browse_thread/thread/9e0e0d533a1a387f/ff9f7d374f31f274%23ff9f7d374f31f274
is our posts. we are doing this in several news group to see if any one could help us out.
No, we do not have software assurance and windows2003 storage server came preinstalled with HP and they are very fussy with what we install on this nas box. e.g. we couldn't install SP1 on this box which was downloaded from ms web site instead we had to get the CD from HP to install SP1
Hope this has help to to see where i am coming from.
Thank you
This server is NAS box from HP so it came by default NFS enabled but we haven't done any changes with NFS. One of the reason we haven't disabled NFS as we are on the process of allowing linux(Fedora) clients to access this file server.
Yes http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.server.general/browse_thread/thread/9e0e0d533a1a387f/ff9f7d374f31f274%23ff9f7d374f31f274
is our posts. we are doing this in several news group to see if any one could help us out.
No, we do not have software assurance and windows2003 storage server came preinstalled with HP and they are very fussy with what we install on this nas box. e.g. we couldn't install SP1 on this box which was downloaded from ms web site instead we had to get the CD from HP to install SP1
Hope this has help to to see where i am coming from.
Thank you
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We were thinking of disabling the NFS for now, which we will try...
"boot fine, get into windows, and then sometime during the day lock up and you have to reboot?" is what we are experiencing.
We have made this server to reboot every morning as we thought this might help us but it hasn't. During the day users comes to us saying they can not access drives etc & we try login to the server, it just gives us desktop without any icons anything. if we press ctrl + ALT +Del and try rebooting it just stays there. Server can not be pinged we mean no access at all. Only option we have this time is just to power off & power on the server (from switch).
Once we do that it works fine for unknown duration & we will have no idea when server going to hang up again.
Hope this will help you
Thank you for your time.
"boot fine, get into windows, and then sometime during the day lock up and you have to reboot?" is what we are experiencing.
We have made this server to reboot every morning as we thought this might help us but it hasn't. During the day users comes to us saying they can not access drives etc & we try login to the server, it just gives us desktop without any icons anything. if we press ctrl + ALT +Del and try rebooting it just stays there. Server can not be pinged we mean no access at all. Only option we have this time is just to power off & power on the server (from switch).
Once we do that it works fine for unknown duration & we will have no idea when server going to hang up again.
Hope this will help you
Thank you for your time.
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Hi
We did disable NFS on our server and still its hanging.. we do not know what to do with this server any more.
Thank you
We did disable NFS on our server and still its hanging.. we do not know what to do with this server any more.
Thank you
Call HP and let them sort it out. The server isn't operating as it should, so it they have to fix it under warranty.
I agree with Darwinian....it definitely seems strange. You might as well try reinstalling everything from scratch too, since they'll probably go that route too, blaming software at this point.
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Now HP has came back and changed RAID Card & Update all the firmware as they wanted to be sure. Problem is our server Hanged yesterday...
We did some performance monitoring of server funny thing is when we looked at Performance from Task Manager, CPU usually sits around 3-5% & memory sits around 900mb mark(out of 4GB)
On the other hand when we checked from performance monitor
"File Data Operations/Sec(System)" sits pretty much 80-100%
"Bytes Total/Sec (Network Interface)" gets up to 100% but comes down after some time.
Pages/Sec (Memory) also gets up to 100% also come down after some time
%Disk Time (Logical) & %Disk Time (Physical) they seems ok as they do UP and down
%Processor Time (Processor) rarely gets more than 25% mark
This is our main file server are these performance are usual?
Now we just have change CPU & Hard disks before we get whole set new.. we have around 250 workstations connecting do you think its because of overloaded server? we have 2 * Xeon Processor, 4GB RAM & GB NIC
Thank you
We did some performance monitoring of server funny thing is when we looked at Performance from Task Manager, CPU usually sits around 3-5% & memory sits around 900mb mark(out of 4GB)
On the other hand when we checked from performance monitor
"File Data Operations/Sec(System)" sits pretty much 80-100%
"Bytes Total/Sec (Network Interface)" gets up to 100% but comes down after some time.
Pages/Sec (Memory) also gets up to 100% also come down after some time
%Disk Time (Logical) & %Disk Time (Physical) they seems ok as they do UP and down
%Processor Time (Processor) rarely gets more than 25% mark
This is our main file server are these performance are usual?
Now we just have change CPU & Hard disks before we get whole set new.. we have around 250 workstations connecting do you think its because of overloaded server? we have 2 * Xeon Processor, 4GB RAM & GB NIC
Thank you
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Hi All
Now a days it slowly stops responds to the services e.g.not able to connect through Remote DeskTop, not able to open even viewer locally and finally stops everything than all we can do is power off the server manually and power on than everything works as normal.
we can connect to event viewer of server from my workstation and browse it. I checked the services to see if any has stoped but non of them has stoped. server is not just excepting the request.
Thank you again guys stayin with us till now.
Now a days it slowly stops responds to the services e.g.not able to connect through Remote DeskTop, not able to open even viewer locally and finally stops everything than all we can do is power off the server manually and power on than everything works as normal.
we can connect to event viewer of server from my workstation and browse it. I checked the services to see if any has stoped but non of them has stoped. server is not just excepting the request.
Thank you again guys stayin with us till now.
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Hi darwinian
Thanks for that Now we are looking on to Symantec Antivirus. We looked at performance monitor and found that "Private Bytes" for "rtvscan" has nearly 3GB ram reserved and never comes down hovers around 2500-3GB ram. We have called symatec suport and still waiting for the call back. see what happens.
Thank you
Thanks for that Now we are looking on to Symantec Antivirus. We looked at performance monitor and found that "Private Bytes" for "rtvscan" has nearly 3GB ram reserved and never comes down hovers around 2500-3GB ram. We have called symatec suport and still waiting for the call back. see what happens.
Thank you
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Hi Guys
Just wanted to thank you all. We have changed couple more parts in the box and also have upgraded Antivirus. it has been couple of days it hasn't hang so let see how it will go.
Thank you
Just wanted to thank you all. We have changed couple more parts in the box and also have upgraded Antivirus. it has been couple of days it hasn't hang so let see how it will go.
Thank you
One of our customers has an ML370 G2 that was going out of warranty. They didn't want to replace the server, so we advised them to pay HP for extended warranty. It payed for itself in a few months - the server started to intermittently hang after a nearby lightening strike, so HP swapped out everything one-at-a-time, then all-at-once with a completely different set of parts to get it going.