So, VMM 2008 refuses to migrate a VM from a W2008 SP1 Hyper-V host to a W2008 SP2 Hyper-V host.\u00a0 That\u2019s not good for upgrade scenarios.\u00a0 These are production VM\u2019s so I can\u2019t go about doing stops and restarts.<\/p>\n
My workaround was simple.\u00a0 Bypass VMM and go straight into the Failover Clustering MMC.\u00a0 I connected to the cluster and migrated the resource for the VM\u2019s in question.\u00a0 That worked perfectly.<\/p>\n
So here\u2019s my planned (at the moment) Hyper-V cluster Service Pack upgrade strategy:<\/p>\n
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- Apply the VMM 2008 rollup (see my recent posts) to the VMM server<\/li>\n
- Migrate VM\u2019s to leave a single host (host 1) with no VM\u2019s.<\/li>\n
- Upgrade host 1 to SP2<\/li>\n
- Wait a day or two<\/li>\n
- Use the Failover Cluster MMC to migrate VM\u2019s from host 2 to host 1<\/li>\n
- Upgrade host 2 to SP2<\/li>\n
- Repeat steps 4 to 6 as required for additional hosts<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
It’s worked for me on two non-critical VM’s.\u00a0 I’m checking with MS if they’d be 100% happy with this.\u00a0 Until I hear back, I’m pausing things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I\u2019ve upgraded the first of our hosts in our Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V cluster to Service Pack 2.\u00a0 I wanted to move VM\u2019s to this host so I could upgrade the next host to SP2.\u00a0 I opened VMM 2008 and attempted a migration of the first VM.\u00a0 I was offered a \u201czero star\u201d score on … Continue reading “VMM 2008 Won\u2019t Migrate VM After W2008 SP2 Install”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}