I have a Compaq CL380, with a 140GB SCSI shared array data storage, 2@ 1Ghz Xeon processors, 1GB RAM running Windows 2000 Advanced server. It has a “sister” server sharing the array, but it not running clustering packages. The device is being used as a image server (a repository of PowerQuest Drive Image files,… .pqi) and used to deploy and house images.
Our problem is this, every so often the images (and other data copied to the shared array storage) becomes corrupt and we have to run chkdsk /, reboot and reload the data from CD. Has anyone seen this before?
We had the same issue on a Compaq Proliant 3000, so we went to the CL380 to try to resolve this without success. We had previously used a Dell GX150 for this purpose, and never had the file corruption, but when we went to a server class machine we began having the issue. We considered going back to the workstation, but would prefer to stay with the server class machine since it is a more robust hardware platform has a GIG network interface (thus is “more faster” and can handle imaging multiple machines simultaneously with minimal performance degradation).
Thanks in advance for all your help