Hi,
I am currently setting up a new ESXi 4.1 environment using Compellent FC storage.
Last Friday afternoon I had a bit of a scare, when we lost a lun and all the VM's that were on it.
A bit more background:
We are using vRanger Pro. I DID disable automounting, and all of the compellent LUNS are in READ-ONLY mode for the vRanger box's HBA's.
I can't see how the vRanger box could have mangled the signature on the LUN, but that is what appeared to happen.
I tried using fdisk commands to repair the LUN (I followed Mr.Eppings directions on the yellowbricks blog for this).
However, I got a message saying the LUN could not be communicated with. (something to that effect.. I forgot the exact message)
Anyway, I shut down ALL the ESXi hosts and booted them back up and the LUN was available an no data lost.
This is great news, but I still dont have an explanation as to WHY this happened in the first place.
And I will most certainly have some explaining to do on Monday morning.
Has anyone seen anything like this before? Any ideas for where I can start? Obvisouly the logs will be a good place to look I suppose. IM just not even sure what to look for in the logs.
