vm window buslogic crashed during iscsh sw failover

[ahoe]

during failover from NIC 2 to Nic 1, vm window vm guest crashed with blue screen. any seguestion? the setup that i have is

2 Built in Broadcom NICs

iSCSI Software SW

VM Window 2003 x86 buslogic

[jb12345]

Was this a P2V or a new installation? Windows 2003 should really be using the LSI controller. Do you have NIC2 set as the primary & NIC1 set as standby?

Do you have the Microsoft iSCSI initiator installed in the VM?

[ahoe]

i am doing cva testing and i have 8 vm guests( window 2003/bus, window 2003/lsi, redhat5u2/lsi, sles10/bus) on host esx 3.5 server. the test case that i am doing is multi-initiator software ISCSI Nic Failover. so, basically, there is I/O stress running all on vm guests and disabled one nic for failover. there are 2 NICs as NIC teaming and both of them are active/active. the failure that i have is window 2003 buslogic vm guests crashed with blue screen ( 0x000000F4) when NIC 2 is disabled. No failure on the other guests. Another thing is i stopped the iozone stress and manually, disabled the NIC, no failure. but with CVA test tool, i am getting the failure. please see the attached for logs. the setup that i have is

host - ESX 3.5

vm guests - window 2003 buslogic

NIC - 2 Broadcom Nics

here is the output from cva test tool,

2009-10-21 23:38:10 PDT: Cycle number: 1

2009-10-21 23:38:10 PDT: Testing NIC number: 1

2009-10-21 23:38:10 PDT: enableOrDisableHbaSwitchPortFor(ESX Server 1, NIC 1, disable)

2009-10-21 23:40:12 PDT: enableOrDisableHbaSwitchPortFor(ESX Server 2, NIC 1, disable)

2009-10-21 23:42:15 PDT: Wait 100 seconds for any path changes to occur.

2009-10-21 23:43:55 PDT: Link device: vmnic1 2009-10-21 23:43:55 PDT: Link speed: 0

2009-10-21 23:43:55 PDT: NIC vmnic1 has been disconnected.

2009-10-21 23:44:15 PDT: STAF on Host mi211-win2k3-32-bus is not running

2009-10-21 23:44:26 PDT: STAF on Host mi212-win2k3-32-bus is not running

2009-10-21 23:44:49 PDT: Active transport targets of all RDM LUNs were found.

2009-10-21 23:44:49 PDT: enableOrDisableHbaSwitchPortFor(ESX Server 1, NIC 1, enable)

2009-10-21 23:46:51 PDT: enableOrDisableHbaSwitchPortFor(ESX Server 2, NIC 1, enable)

2009-10-21 23:48:54 PDT: Wait 100 seconds for any path changes to occur.

2009-10-21 23:50:34 PDT: Failed Failover of NIC number: 1 on both hosts.

2009-10-21 23:50:34 PDT: Errors were found during cycle of NIC switch changes.

2009-10-21 23:50:34 PDT: enableOrDisableHbaSwitchPortFor(ESX Server 2, NIC 1, enable)

2009-10-21 23:52:36 PDT: enableOrDisableHbaSwitchPortFor(ESX Server 2, NIC 2, enable)

2009-10-21 23:54:39 PDT: Stopping all the IOZONE threads

2009-10-21 23:54:39 PDT: Waiting at most 15 minutes for all the stopped IOzone threads to complete...

2009-10-22 00:09:40 PDT: Number of remaining IOzone threads: 2

2009-10-22 00:09:40 PDT: All IOzone Threads have stopped.

2009-10-22 00:09:40 PDT: Test failed. 2009-10-22 00:09:40 PDT: NICTeamFailover SOFTWARE Multi_Initiator 172.20.186.121 Failed

[jb12345]

Is there a reason you have to use the Buslogic controller on those VMs? it is suspicious that none of your LSI VMs are having trouble & VMware recommends against th Buslogic controller for ESX.

[jb12345]

You should take a look at this blog, it may help:

http://blogs.vmware.com/storage/2009/10/vstorage-multi-paths-options-in-vsphere.html

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[jb12345]

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