I haven't had much luck doing R1 to R2 upgrades in our ESX 4 environment. A lot of flaky network issues with upgraded boxes, hangs on startup, all sorts of weird behaviour. In the end I opted to build a new template fresh from R2 rather than upgrade existing R1 systems.
On 26 March 2010 13:57, Steve Ens <stevey...@gmail.com> wrote: > No AV scanning that box. I'm getting an event id 3070 and 3040. > > Unnamed VM' failed to initialize. (Virtual machine > 64EF49F6-3922-44E1-BB24-254088FE6650) > That takes me to this link > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd581971(WS.10).aspx<http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd581971%28WS.10%29.aspx> > > Check the environment in which the start virtual machine operation was > being attempted, including: > > 1. access and permissions to the configuration file, memory file and > all image files > 2. prior error messages in the event log > 3. available RAM on the system > 4. configuration settings > 5. disk space for the memory file and any expanding virtual hard disks > > All of these should've been OK. Just doing a straight upgrade. > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Miller Bonnie L. < > mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu> wrote: > >> Are you running any file-level AV software on the host server? That’s >> the only thing I can think of that I’ve seen completely kill off guests like >> that. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961804. >> >> >> >> -Bonnie >> >> >> >> *From:* Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] >> *Sent:* Thursday, March 25, 2010 7:26 PM >> >> *To:* NT System Admin Issues >> *Subject:* Upgrade from 2008 to 2008 r2 >> >> >> >> Kicked off an upgrade before I left of a Hyper V virtual machine. Went >> through the upgrade and let it run. At home now, thinking the upgrade >> should be finished. Taking a look at Hyper V Manager and the machine is >> nowhere to be seen. I took a snapshot before I ran the upgrade, but that >> doesn't show up in the console. The backup files do seem to be there, but >> what's the easiest way to bring the server back from the dead? I've done >> these upgrades a bunch of times on a test server, with no issues. ANy >> ideas? >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
