Hi Everybody!
I need some assistance in this cluster, and I thank everybody in advance for having a look...
I have a 2 node cluster with a private 1gbps nic and a public 1gbps nic. Both have dual opteron 6212 and 32gb ram.
I have the public NIC setup as a virtual external nic with hyper-v, and the private nic is set as regular static (no virtual).
My san server is a 18TB windows server 2012 san server. 18TB is secondary drive.
iscsi targets have been made on the san server: 1 x 1TB (lun 0) & 1 x 1GB (lun 1)
iscsi initiator on both nodes use the private nic to connect, multipath is on, default connection settings changed to private ips in advanced when setting up initiator on both nodes.
cluster was created with 100% passes (except warning that private nics would not be used for communication since they were the connections for the iscsi disks)
The 1GB disk has been made the disk witness and is owned by node 2.
The 1TB disk is a CSV, and is owned by node 1.
When creating a fixed vhdx on the CSV from node 1 that is 25GB in size, it literally takes forever. I stopped it after 1 hour.
When creating a fixed 25GB vhdx locally on node 1, and then copying it over to the CSV, it takes even longer! So long that I stopped it after 2 hours.
PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-ClusterSharedVolume Name State Node ---- ----- ---- Hyper-V Disk Online VHS1 PS C:\Windows\system32> hostname VHS1
Also, when I watch the Private NIC in the performance monitor, it stays at 0kbps for about 5-10seconds, then jumps to about 2.2mbps for a split second, and then comes right back down. :(
What am I missing that is making this read/write so incredibly slow? I'm copying from the CSV owner.
Thanks!!!