There are two different issues in this post, for the SANHQ not showing iSCSI Connections, At present SANHQ shows the correct total connection count but does not provide details of individual iSCSI connections for snapshots, which it should. So in the meantime use the Group Manager which shows the details for each snapshot (I know that's not the best answer, its a short term workaround). The fact the SANHQ does not show details of snapshot connection does not mean they are not there and I can't imagine anything to do with the DPM issue. For real fix, look for upcoming beta of SANHQ and signup for that on the EQL support site. You can do that now.
Hello, First-time poster. We just implemented an EqualLogic PS6100X SAN and we're having performance problems between our DPM backup server, one of our Hyper-V hosts, and VM images that are stored on the SAN. I'll try to provide as much information as I can Environment: Dedicated iSCSI network using Dell Force10 switches 3 Hyper-V Hosts (Windows Server 2008 R2)- 2 of the hosts have a dedicated 4-port GB NIC connected to the iSCSI network; 1 host has a dedicated 2-port GB NIC connected to the iSCSI network- Each Hyper-V host has a dedicated RAID-50 volume on the EQ SAN, which stores the Hyper-V VMs- EQ VSS provider installed on all 3 Hyper-V hosts and working correctly Using DPM 2010 for backup Problem: On Hyper-V hosts 1 and 2, any/all backup-related activities are painfully slow. On the 3rd Hyper-V host, however, any/all backup-related activities are blazingly fast! We've compared NIC configurations, HIT/ME and ASM settings, but we can't figure out why it is so slow on hosts 1 & 2. On top of that, whenever DPM 2010 tells the EQ VSS provider to create a snapshot, we see the snapshot being created in the EQ Group Manager, but it doesn't show up in the iSCSI Connections list. According to the SAN HQ documentation, snapshots as well as volumes should show up here. We've also turned off TcpAckFrequency for all 3 hyper-v hosts. This has helped somewhat, but there is still a HUGE difference with regard to DPM backups.We're pretty sure that there's something configured incorrectly on Hyper-V hosts 1 & 2, since Hyper-V host 3 does not have performance problems.How do I get snapshots to appear in the iSCSI Connections list in SAN HQ? Version info:SAN HQ = 2.2.0.5924Storage Array Firmware = 5.2.4
Snapshots created with EqualLogic VSS Provider do not display in SAN HQ