Funny Dave...I've seen that issue with HyperV too... Sent from my FriPad
On 2011-10-29, at 11:10 PM, Rene de Haas <[email protected]> wrote: > +1000 > Op 30 okt. 2011 01:16 schreef "Andrew S. Baker" <[email protected]> het > volgende: > I'm always amazed by how the most (otherwise) elegant and robust solutions > can fail because of some silly configuration that should handled in a very > different way. > > ASB > http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker > Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… > > > > > On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 2:31 AM, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote: > Remotely working on a %nightjob% client tonight, both a VM and corresponding > host unexpectedly drop my LogMeIn connection. I see from LogMeIn that other > systems in that room are online, so I know it wasn’t the circuit that > dropped. Oh joy, I get to drive in (thankfully a short 20 min drive). > > > > I get onsite and the host server is halted at the POST screen for the eSATA > RAID controller, and the eSATA RAID controller reports a degraded disk on one > of the two volumes. Power everything off, pull the drives, > disconnect/reconnect the cables, etc. Power it back up and everything shows > good. > > > > So the host comes up (YAY ½ way there! Well…) and I log in and watch for the > VM to start…it gets to 50% then stops, and after 15 minutes (and you know how > long 15 minutes is when you’re waiting for a *VERY* critical server to come > up don’tcha?) the VM goes back to “stopped”. > > > > As I do full volume backups nightly to the eSATA I’m not too worried yet, but > even recovering to that this client would lose a day of work (Internet > backups start at 7pm, servers went offline at 5:13pm). A cursory look at the > event logs shows nothing exciting, so I change the VM “autostart” from 60 > seconds after host OS to 500 seconds and then reboot the host. > > > > No change. Joy. > > > > Thinking maybe it’s an issue on the host I pull a two week old DISK2VHD file > that was handier than the backups, I create a new VM on the host and use > this VHD. That VM fires up just fine, but it makes me wonder if I can just > create a new VM and point to the existing disk files for this critical > server. I file that away for plan B. > > > > I hit the event logs again, I went through both system and app logs for the > timeframe including 30 mins on either side of the start failures (and you > know I tried to start that VM more than just those two times…). Somehow I > stumbled upon one of Windows 2008’s 1 zillion new logs, under Windows > logs\Applicaitons and Services logs\Microsoft\Windows\Hyper-V Worker and I > found my golden nugget: > > > > Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-Worker-Admin > > Source: Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-Worker > > Date: 10/28/2011 7:02:45 PM > > Event ID: 12140 > > Task Category: None > > Level: Error > > Keywords: > > User: NETWORK SERVICE > > Computer: Host4.thehosed.one.local > > Description: > > 'thehosed.one': Failed to open attachment > '\\192.168.116.249\Inst-server\Windows 2008 > R2\SW_DVD5_Windows_Svr_DC_EE_SE_Web_2008R2_64-bit_English_X15-59754.ISO'. > Error: 'The specified network name is no longer available.' (0x80070040). > (Virtual machine 97527135-A765-4700-AF66-C6FE2143391D) > > Event Xml: > > > > Google-Fu then returned a thread to me where someone else was having the same > issue because about a VM not starting and it turned out to be a CD-ROM driver > issue. Was the VM was failing to start because I had the CD-ROM mapped to a > network location that was no longer valid? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Go into VM > settings, remove the CD-ROM from the config and boot the VM. Presto! Took me > just over four hours to find the necessary 2-second config change… > > > > I charge 1.5x my normal hourly rate to break my routine and drive onsite, > somehow I think just one hour is fairhere – sometimes the lesson and the > relief that there was zero data loss for the client is reward enough! > > David Lum > Systems Engineer // NWEATM > Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
