Hello,
I have a problem restoring backed up databases with snapprotect.
Our setup is:
We have a FAS6250 Metrocluster with on each node a NFS datastore for our VM disks. Our SQL Server servers have their own rdm luns for database and logfile luns in a volume per server instance. We use FCoE connectivity.
Backup works fine, not every day 100% but most of the time the backups complete succesfully.
When I try to restore a database to the original server we run into a problem. The error message is:
Error Code: [32:392]
Description: The client machine initiator address is not visible on the file server. Please check the SAN or iSCSI connectivity between the file server and the client. : [Initiators on host:[**********] Are not logged into file server:[***********]. Please check the SAN or iSCSI connectivity between the file server and the client.]
Source:***********, Process: CVD
I cannot understand why snapprotect cannot let the server connect to the storage system, when I use snapdrive on that server it shows me all the disks, so the SAN connectivity is ok.
Additional info: we use one disk as a mountdisk, the luns are connected via mountpoints on this disk, again, each sql instance has its own mountdir with a mountdir per lun.
I can connect to a lun in a snapshot using snapdrive on the server. So that would be a workaround for not being able to restore with SnapProtect, but I'd rather restore using SnapProtect so I can delegate restore requests to other people 🙂
Hope anyone can help me with this.