We have 2 identical servers: Dell PE 1950's with Dual CPU's and 32 GB's of RAM, running Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Edtiion. They are connected up via iSCSI to a Dell MD3000i Storage aray. Both of these servers are experiencing issues with the Hyper-V Manager / VMMS service. The VMMS service seems to hang. Both of the hosts say: "Connecting to Virtual Machine Mangement Service..." It never connects, even though the VMMS service is running and the VM's are running as well. Both servers have multiple guests / VM's on them and the VM's will work. When and if the Hyper-V Manager connects to the VMMS service and I try and connect to a VM or shut it down via the Hyper-V Manager - the VM doesn't respond. The VM will act as if it was given no command. However - I can RDP into the VM and shut it down and/or reboot it without problems.
Ideas?
-David Miller