On Dec 5, 5:06*pm, "Charlie Russel-MVP"
<char...@mvKILLALLSPAMMERSps.org> wrote:
> Having lived with ISA and SBS 2003 and iSCSI, everything Steve writes is
> true. But I'd go further. I'd strongly suggest that you would be FAR better
> off buying larger disks and using one of the third party tools that are out
> there to clone your existing SBS installation onto the new disks and then
> swap them out. Managing a third NIC with SBS 2003 and the CEICW is not fun
> (and ugly when you forget to disable that third NIC and you run it.) Plus
> the whole process breaks down if anything critical is on iSCSI provided
> disks, limiting what you can put on them. (For example, do NOT put Exchange
> stores, or SQL data on the disks unless you want to have to do some fairly
> ugly juggling whenever you need to mess with the configuration. )
>
> --
> Charlie.http://blogs.msmvps.com/russel
>
> "Steve Foster" <stevefos...@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
>
> news:...
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>
> > Ringo wrote:
>
> >> Hi All,
>
> >> I have a SBS 2003 Premium server (running ISA) nearing max capacity,
> >> so I acquired a Drobo B800i to increase the storage capacity. *The
> >> Drobo B800i connects to the server via ISCSI (on its own dedicated NIC
> >> card which I added)...but only problem is, for some reason, the
> >> Microsoft ISCSI connector fails to find the Drobo B800i. *I had this
> >> working no problem on a Windows 2008 server, but on this SBS 2003
> >> Premium Server I am having no luck gettting it connected.
>
> >> I have a feeling this is a because ISA is running on the server and
> >> preventing the connection somehow. *A Drobo tech doc specifically
> >> mentions about making sure the firewall is not blocking the ISCSI port
> >> (but this doc pertains to Windows 7, not SBS 2003).
>
> >http://support.drobo.com/app/answers...9;m-unable-to-...
>
> >> Does anyone have any idea how unblock the ISCSI port on a SBS 2003
> >> Premium box running ISA? *Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank
> >> you.
>
> > You would need to update the ISA Server configuration to deal with the
> > 3rd NIC (ie making sure ISA has the right settings to include it and
> > know that it's internal), and then set up appropriate rules to cover
> > the iSCSI protocol (which from a quick review appears to be use TCP/860
> > and/or TCP/3260).
>
> > Note that the CEICW does not cope with 3 NIC scenarios, so any time you
> > need to use that, you'll have further work to do to re-enable the iSCSI
> > NIC and associated configuration.
>
> > --
> > Steve Foster
> > For SSL Certificates, Domains, etc, visit.:
> >https://netshop.virtual-isp.net- Hide quoted text -
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Thank you all for your insight and responses. I also posted to the
Microsoft Forums, and MVP SuperGumby got my setup up and running (link
below):
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...d-27b979084c7f
Understood that the SBS Wizards dont perform well with a 3rd NIC, but
thankfully, we havent had the need to run the wizards in the last 3
years (i mean really, once you setup SBS, how often do you need to
reconfigure it - except renew an SSL certificate). We will be
upgrading to SBS 2011 in early 2012 anyways.
No Exchange stores will be put on the Drobo...in short, for now the
Drobo is simply used to provide a TON of document storage for a Shared
Folder across the Company.
I'm proud to say this particular SBS 2003 setup has been running
without a single problem for the last 5 years (SBS ROCKS when
configured correctly!!!). Only problem is, 5 years ago, storage was
sold in the Gigabytes and was quite expensive, thus we could only
afford 500GB of storage space in a RAID 5 array at the time (which
seemed like a at the time - LOL).
Now, 5 years later, files sizes have increased significantly and video
is often the medium being saved to the server, thus a massive amount
of storage is required. The Drobo ISCSI solution takes care of this
effectively.
I will update you all if we encounter any problems, but so far so good
(in fact, awesome!)
Ringo
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