David.Ashton at rullion
Jul 6, 2009, 2:50 AM
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Hi Toasters
Last week we attempted to extend a disk - a lun mounted in windows 2003
server using snapdrive (ver 6.0.1) - something we do fairly often.
The event viewer on the server reported:
Failed to expand the LUN by 51200 MB. Failure in expanding NTFS file
system on the disk.
LUN Name = bondv8_database.lun
Storage Path = /vol/vol_bondv8/
Protocol Type = LUN
Storage System Name = RULWAFAS01
Error code : The parameter is incorrect.
However, the filer actually did expand the lun, and from the filer
everything looked kosher.
Windows however, did not reflect the change. We disconnected/reconnected
etc and it wouldn't change. Netapp told us to either a) rewrite the MBR on
the disk manually using a windows support tool (beyond our expertise and a
bit scary) or b) copy all the data off, destroy the volume, recreate, and
copy back.
We did (b) and the copying of the data to a new volume took 7 hours, and
once we destroyed/recreated a new volume, the copy back took 2 hours. This
was all over the Fibre channel, and the speed difference I cant account
for,
I can expand the new lun/volume using snapdrive with no problems now, but
have to admit my confidence in snapdrive is shaken. It's taken all weekend
to sort this out (following an aborted copy on saturday) and am worried
that such a fundamental facility of the SAN is being compromised by the
Snapdrive software.
Has anyone got any ideas as to why windows would do this? Its not happened
before, and its a stable server, all upto date. Ontap is 7.2.5.1, filers,
FC switches, drivers etc were updated late last year and we've been very
stable.
thanks
Dave Ashton
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