Hi,
A problem that occured some time ago has left me wishing for a better way for a Hyper-V host to handle Machines...
I had a Server 2012 Datacenter server running about 18 different servers (Windows and Linux) And something happened with the server at patch tuesday and literally killed it, it would not let me log in, and the hyper-Visor did not start, it was dead in the water. So i decided to reinstall with WS2012 R2 and installed the Hypervisor. Now at this Point the Raid partitions is available and all data is intact...... i changed the default path of virtual Machines to what it was Before the crash... Aaaaand there is nothing there... Trying to import Machines will fail.... since no machine was "exported" Before the crash it did not allow me to import them. so i created a new machine and reused the vhd for 2 domaincontrollers and checked the replication between them.... Everything seemed alright, last step Before i could start attaching the rest of the Machines was to add the newly installed Hyper-V Server to the domain (not recommended perhaps but makes my Life a lot easier) But it failed miserably, it did not find the domaincontrollers, it did state in the log that it did indeed identify them correctly, it was no connectivity issues since i could ping them and map network drives etc, all firewalls are down.. It just happened to be when i dug Deep into DNS that GUID´s where showing Little bit everywhere where the actual servernames where supposed to be at, so the servers got lost in translation :-/ !
Thank god for DPM, i ended up with restoring the domaincontrollers to a second hyper-v host, then joined the WS2012R2 to the domain, and installed the dpm client, and restored all the rest of the servers thru DPM.....
My question here is, Why.... for the love of GOD can´t hyper-v get a database, or a recovery database, integrated within (and that be placed on a raid for example) and have a recovery-mode on Hyper-V which will use that database to recover after a disaster of which i happened to end up in.
I can´t imagine that everyone who uses Hyper-V are using shared storage and live migration-technology, but as single-hosts, Please make our lives easier :)
Thank you for reading this.
/Robert