Proxmox with 3PAR OS before 3.2.2 MU3

Oct 11, 2016
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we ran into a pretty difficult to find bug with FC (would happen also with iSCSI) runing proxmox 4.3

Actually this is not a proxmox bug, but in kernel Version 3.19+ a bug in the SCSI Stack was fixed which makes using 3PAR Storage impossible.

the error in dmesg looks like this:

Code:
sd 0:0:0:101: [sdj] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
sd 0:0:0:101: [sdj] tag#0 Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
sd 0:0:0:101: [sdj] tag#0 Add. Sense: Invalid field in cdb
sd 0:0:0:101: [sdj] tag#0 CDB: Write same(16) 93 08 00 00 00 00 4c c4 87 fc 00 00 ff ff 00 00
blk_update_request: critical target error, dev sdj, sector 1287948284
blk_update_request: critical target error, dev dm-5, sector 1287948284

basically 3PAR before 3.2.2 MU3 has wrong implementation of SCSI Stack. So make sure you upgrade your 3PAR Storage to at least 3.2.2 MU3 before using proxmox! Took us a few days to find the problem as it is not very good documented.

Details can be found here
 

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