RE: Upgrade from 2008 to 2008 r2

2010-03-26 Thread Miller Bonnie L .
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

Re: Upgrade from 2008 to 2008 r2

2010-03-26 Thread Steve Ens
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 Check the environment in which the start virtual

Re: Upgrade from 2008 to 2008 r2

2010-03-26 Thread James Rankin
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,

Re: Upgrade from 2008 to 2008 r2

2010-03-26 Thread Steve Ens
So I have a good snapshot, is there a way to restore that? Note - the snapshot doesn't show up in the HV Manager. On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 9:35 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: I haven't had much luck doing R1 to R2 upgrades in our ESX 4 environment. A lot of flaky network issues

Re: Upgrade from 2008 to 2008 r2

2010-03-26 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Have you tried to import it? -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Steve Ens stevey...@gmail.com wrote: So I have a good snapshot, is there a way to restore that? Note - the snapshot doesn't show up in the HV Manager. On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 9:35 AM, James

Re: Upgrade from 2008 to 2008 r2

2010-03-26 Thread Steve Ens
No, since there a couple of snapshots...I'm merging them into the parent disk first. On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: Have you tried to import it? -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker http://xeesm.com/AndrewBaker On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:42 AM,