Error 64, File Server Cluster

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We have a File Server Cluster (Win2k3EE R2 x64), 2 nodes Active/
Passive, directly connected to a SCSI drive array serving as the
backend for multiple web servers. There are a total of 8 IIS servers
on the front end (Active/Passive behind a load balancer, so only 4 are
active at any one time) that store some file persistence and content
on the file cluster. The websites application roots are located
locally on the web servers, and there are multiple virtual directories
pointing to the cluster.

Occasionally we are receiving some errors with regards to the shares
going offline with error 64 in the cluster.log file. In a few
instances we have received event id 1055 in our event log. I have
followed KB article # 961657, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961657,
to try and fix this issue, but to no avail. MS PSS have also
recommended that KB article as a fix. I have even bumped up the max
work items to 16384 to try and fix it, but it still happens, although
not as frequently.

My first gut instinct on the matter is that the file cluster server
service is being overwhelmed with SMB requests as a result of File
Change Notifications from ASP.NET and simple file requests from IIS.
I made the registry changes on the web servers documented in KB
911272, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/911272, to try and reduce the
number of File Change Notification Objects being created, but because
the directories being accessed on the cluster are virtual directories
rather than the application root, the FCNMode change has had only a
little effect.

MS PSS has not come through with a fix for this, rather just
incremental changes that really have had zero effect. Does anyone
have any insight on these types of issues?

Thank you

Brian
.

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