Dell PowerVault NX3100
Server 2008R2
24G ram
PERC H700 - 12x3TB hdd - COnfigured as Raid 6 with 1 hot spare 25TB
PERC H800 - attached to 4 MD1200's with 12x3TB HDD configured as Raid 6 with 1 hot spare/shelf so 25TB/Shelf
Two volumes created in windows
Smalldata 25TB on the H700
Bigdata 100TB striped volume with the 4 'drives' attached to the H800
When I enable shadow copies everything works just fine on Smalldata but it fails on Bigdata
(Is there a size limit on a shadow copy enabled volume? It does work fine when I create a striped volume of 50TB by using only two of the MD1200's)
The error messages:
Failed to Create a shadow copy of volume F:\
Error 0x80042306: The shadow copy provider had an error. Check the System and Applicaton event logs for more information
No errors appear in the System log : This is the error in the Applicaton log
Log Name: Application
Source: VSS
Date: 10/12/2012 9:06:18 AM
Event ID: 12289
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
Description:
Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error DeviceIoControl(\\?\Volume{de0c6409-1319-11e2-99b0-90e2ba1e680d} - 0000000000000194,0x0053c008,00000000003BC4E0,0,00000000003BF4F0,4096,[0]).
hr = 0x80070057, The parameter is incorrect.
.
Operation:
Processing EndPrepareSnapshots
Context:
Execution Context: System Provider