RandyJS

Well figured it out ----- My Network GUYS said the Cisco 6504 s were all set to support Jumbo Packets. Well THEY WERE NOT. Some packets got through thats why waiting forever actually got data - and the ISCSI initiator actually connected on and off I went back to 1500 MTU and all is solid (ill work to get back to Jumbo later) Hope this may help someone in the future

I have the same problem - iscsi and 2008R2 Std seemed to work fine (to EMC NX4) untill I loaded MPIO - now any area I try to USE iscsi hangs (server manager - even just selecting the drive - etc....) I guess I need to re-install without MPIO and see if it works consistantly If I then load MPIO and it breaks again that may tell us something This is painful I will keep checking this thread