Solved: MSiSCSI Timeout - Event ID 103 - 2003 server hanging connected to CX4-120

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MSiSCSI Timeout - Event ID 103 - 2003 server hanging connected to CX4-120

We have an EMC CX4-120 iSCSI SAN currently connected to one host as a file server on 2008 storage server that is working fine. We recently purchased another server and due to our current SAP environment, had to load Windows 2003 x64 Enterprise on it.

I loaded v 2.08 of the MS iscsi initiator, navisphereCLI, Navisphere agent, and powerpath administrator. I have 5 raid5 LUNS being attached which correspond to F: 70GB, G: 70GB, H: 70GB, I:, 1000GB, Z: 20 GB.

If I attach them while the server si running, everything appears to function correctly, but if I reboot, I the server will usually hang after login and the drives either slowly appear or not at all. For example, right now, PowerPath administrator shows all 5 drives, but the disk manager hangs when I try to view them and In explorer, it only shows 4 of the 5. The 1000GB was missing for about 10 minutes until it finally appeared.

Event Viewer shows a few errors that only appear if I have iSCSI drives attached. If I disconnect them and reboot, all is well, no system hangs.

Powerpath shows all paths up and active.

I have tried “iscsicli ClearPersistentDevices"

I do not understand the event id relating to 192.168.1.3 as a target. That target is up and active and we do not receive these errors on the Windows 2008 server.

Ideas?

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dovidmichel🇺🇸

Update storport.sys
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950903

Make sure the latest NIC driver is installed.

If that does not help, check for an iSCSI initiator from the manufacturer of the NIC rather than using the MS version.

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Was a few registry settings for timeouts

Paul S🇺🇸

Can you please share which registry settings? It was not the dependency settings?

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Sorry, I misspoke when I said "registry" settings. The changes specified in the article I originally posted solved the issue. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/870964

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Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).