I mentioned a while ago that I had a problem with refreshing the VMM agent on my Hyper-V lab machine in Virtual Machine Manager 2008.\u00a0 The error produced in the job was:\n<\/p>\n
"Error (1700) The Virtual Machine Manager service on the CINWSVR008 server stopped while this job was running. This may have been caused by a system restart.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>\n<\/p>\n Recommended Action To restart this job, navigate to the Jobs view and select the job in the results pane. Then, in the Actions pane, click Restart."<\/em>\n<\/p>\n At the same time I’d get errors 1 and 1999 in the VM Manager application log in event viewer.\u00a0 The key word to note is PostVirtualNetworkUpdate.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n It turns out that this is bad<\/em>.\u00a0 I’ve previously mentioned how it was bad to every configure HP’s network card teaming on the BL460C if you intended to run Hyper-V?\u00a0 Guess what?\u00a0 This appears to apply to any<\/em> server.\u00a0 My lab machine is a DL380G5 which has different NIC hardware than the NIC’s on my BL460C’s that I’m using for VM networking.\u00a0 Here’s what MS PSS had to say:\n<\/p>\n "This is a known bug and it is fixed in the next version.\u00a0 The issue is caused by Hyper-V reporting 2 NICs with the same name.\u00a0 Here are the known workarounds:<\/em><\/p>\n The bug ID is 38264 and will be included in the next product release (R2).\u00a0 Other than these stated \u201cworkarounds\u201d there isn\u2019t much else that can be done".<\/em>\n<\/p>\n Eeeek!\u00a0\n<\/p>\n Option 2 is out.\u00a0 The server has 2 NIC’s only: one for the parent and one for guests.\u00a0 That also rules out option 3.\u00a0 Option 4 is a no-no.\u00a0 There’s no way I’m disabling automatic refresh on a VMM server that manages my cluster where VM’s can be migrated from A to B.\u00a0 A bit more searching on my part and I found that the driver upgrade seemed to work for some people on HP hardware.\n<\/p>\n I’ve applied the latest drivers to this machine but no joy with that.\u00a0 The MS engineer looking at the call has come up with another idea which I’m going to look at asap.\n<\/p>\n EDIT #1:\n<\/p>\n After further work with a very patient and responsive MS engineer we’ve run out of ideas.\u00a0 This one doesn’t fit previously diagnosed cases.\u00a0 BTW, the engineer in question is coincidentally publishing a blog post on this issue later this week.\u00a0 My case is being forwarded to the product group to see if they have further ideas.\n<\/p>\n EDIT #2:\n<\/p>\n The MS engineer working the case, Mike Briggs, has documented a workaround<\/a> that seems to fit most scenarios with these symptoms.\n<\/p>\n EDIT #3:\n<\/p>\n I’ve been informed that the developers are now working on a bug fix.\u00a0 Yeap, I found a new one that isn’t covered by the above.\u00a0 It seems my NIC configuration doesn’t quite fit the profile of the above, i.e. no lingering ghost NIC’s.\u00a0 There’s no schedule on the release of the fix; the procedure is that your call gets closed when it gets to this part of the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I mentioned a while ago that I had a problem with refreshing the VMM agent on my Hyper-V lab machine in Virtual Machine Manager 2008.\u00a0 The error produced in the job was: "Error (1700) The Virtual Machine Manager service on the CINWSVR008 server stopped while this job was running. 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