Ryan Miller wrote:
> 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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iam sorry but i have a doubt "what is this testing on a virtual machine"  ? you 
mean on a tool like vmware or remote desktop ?

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