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Monday, August 19, 2013

Windows Update List (Common)

Often when troubleshooting with any operating system for issues will lead you to in one way or another to "storage".  From certain points of view this can look and appear like storage and send you down a rather wild goose chase and some hair pulling. 

Usually the taking the time to update the server hardware updates and the operating system updates seems like a waste, but in all honesty it is not.  Most of the updates to storage platforms are going to take the dangerous assumption that you are actually on these, so not being is going to create a communication issue.  So yes in part from the error logs it is going to appear as a storage issue, but in reality it is your OS drivers.

Here is a list of the most common drivers that can be troublesome and as of today (08/19/13) the link to the links.



Driver
Category
Windows Version
KB containing the latest driver update
KB revision date
msiscsi.sys
Storage
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
4/11/2012
mpio.sys
Storage
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
1/10/2013
storport.sys
Storage
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
5/22/2013
volsnap.sys
Storage
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
5/22/2013
tcpip.sys
Networking
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
6/14/2013
vid.sys
Virtualization
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
12/27/2012
storvsp.sys
Virtualization
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
6/13/2013
clusdisk.sys
Clustering
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
1/9/2013
msiscsi.sys
Storage
Windows Server 2012
12/11/2012
mpio.sys
Storage
Windows Server 2012
6/13/2013
storport.sys
Storage
Windows Server 2012
7/12/2013
volsnap.sys
Storage
Windows Server 2012
7/12/2013
tcpip.sys
Networking
Windows Server 2012
7/12/2013
storvsp.sys
Virtualization
Windows Server 2012
6/13/2013

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