Hardware:
Supermicro X8SIL-F-O with Xeon X3450 CPU
IBM ServeRAID M1015 flashed to LSI 9211 IT Mode
Onboard Dual Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet Controllers
HP NC360T 2 Port 1GbE NIC
Intel X520-DA2 2 Port 10GbE NIC
Samsung 830 256GB SSD
Seagate Barracuda 2TB [ST2000DM001]
Vertex 1 30GB SSD
Patriot Extreme Performance Xporter XT Rage 8GB (ESXi)
ESXi 5.0 but tried 5.0 U1, U2 and 5.1.
Please find attached error messages (2)
This issue is only happening when Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001 is used as a datastore, I have two other datastores on Samsung and OCZ SSDs and there are no problems with them. Basically 10 seconds into file upload using vSphere client or migrating VMs between datastores I get "I/O Error Occurred" error message. Shortly after vSphere client cannot see the datastore anymore and it simply disappears! Attempts at re-creating it fail (see second screenshot) but the disk appears to be visible - I just cannot do anything with it. After a reboot the disk is completely gone and I have to shut down in order to see it again....
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 installed directly on the hard drive was not giving me any issues at all – it went through lots of testing and the drive is 100% good.
Did you guys come across anything similar?
I have seen plenty posts on the internet with users successfully using M1015 controllers and everyone seem to be very happy with them.
Help!