Is E: a local disk or RAID set? If so it looks like you have
something locking the files to me, and that's what's mucking things
up. (like a backup or antivirus app -- if so, make sure all the VM's
files are excluded)
If E:'s across a network, it could be a backup or AV app too, but I'd
also include possible network hardware problems.
--
Bob Comer
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:13:03 -0700, "Derek Lalor"
<v_derekl@xxxxxx> wrote:
Quote:
>Environment setup:
>- HP DL580 G5 CPU x 4 +132GB RAM running Windows Server 2008 + SP1.
>- Virtual machines are running Windows Server 2003 + SP2.
>
>Originally the application environment was migrated to virtual platform by
>building environment on new virtual machines and then simply copying those
>VHDs into new VMs, dropping them off the network and rejoining under new
>server name. I then noticed the behavior where VMs would go into perpetual
>reboot after taking snapshot. The snapshots are saved on the same volume as
>the VM host machine.
>
>I did some research and hit upon a couple of posts reporting similar
>behavior but the propsed resolution did not work. I then suspected this was
>perhaps the result of not doing a proper sys-prep of the machines. I rebuilt
>the environments using sys-prepped images and have encountered this behavior
>again - I take a snapshot which is generated successfully, server then goes
>into perpetual reboot, I reapply the snapshot but server then seems to have
>been knocked off the network and I have to remove from AD and rejoin.
>
>Below are errors from HyperV logs associated with this behavior. Has anyone
>encountered this issue before. Should I perhaps be saving the snapshots to a
>different volume?
>
>Error #1:
>The Virtual Machines configuration BCB9DC58-B50E-4DF0-A325-7944860B089F at
>'E:\VM\<%SERVERNAME%>' is no longer accessible: The I/O operation has been
>aborted because of either a thread exit or an application request.
>(0x800703E3)
>
>Error #2:
>The Virtual Machines configuration BCB9DC58-B50E-4DF0-A325-7944860B089F at
>'E:\VM\\<%SERVERNAME%>' is now accessible.