It has come to my attention that there appears to be an issue with NW 
7.4.3 running on a physical Windows 2008 machine, where device detection 
(and thus inquire and the dvdetect process that identifies attached 
devices) hangs.

We initially saw this on a customers Windows 2008 server that was to be 
the backup server.  Testing on a virtual machine yielded no issues, but 
the problem was easily reproduced on a physical lab machine.

A case was opened with EMC and finally after about 6 weeks, they decided 
that my test scenarios were accurate and they also had a hanging inquire 
issue on their physical machine.  This was after they had claimed that 
they have seen NW 7.4.3 work in all kinds of Windows 2008 environments 
with many brands of HBA, etc.

So it appears that even though W2K8 is listed as a potential server and 
storage node platform with NW 7.4.3 - it was only tested in a virtual 
environment.  Nice to know some of the QA testing regimes.

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