Remote Shut-Down Trashed VHD's?

Started By Joe_Miner, Jul 20 2012 03:21 PM

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#1 Joe_Miner

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 03:21 PM

I'm running Hyper-V in Win8 RP with 5 Hyper-V clients and was loading S2012e.

Before initializing S2012e I wanted to shut down my Win8 RP host to check something -- I had read about how this could be done remotely instead of going downstairs and hitting the button on the box -- so........

In a Remote Desktop into the Win8 RP host I went to the Command Prompt

typed in:

Shutdown /S

This shut down my host.

The problem arose when I powered the Host back up and when I went to my Hyper-V manager --- ALL of my VM's were "Off-Critical" and when I opend Windows Explorer my VHD drive was empty.

I thought I had everything set-up to shut down my VM's gracefully when the Host shut down and restart all of my VM's when the Host started back up.

What did I do wrong?

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#2 pcdoc

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Posted 21 July 2012 - 04:12 AM

I'm running Hyper-V in Win8 RP with 5 Hyper-V clients and was loading S2012e.

Before initializing S2012e I wanted to shut down my Win8 RP host to check something -- I had read about how this could be done remotely instead of going downstairs and hitting the button on the box -- so........

In a Remote Desktop into the Win8 RP host I went to the Command Prompt

typed in:

Shutdown /S

This shut down my host.

The problem arose when I powered the Host back up and when I went to my Hyper-V manager --- ALL of my VM's were "Off-Critical" and when I opend Windows Explorer my VHD drive was empty.

I thought I had everything set-up to shut down my VM's gracefully when the Host shut down and restart all of my VM's when the Host started back up.

What did I do wrong?

Try changing your automatic stop actions configured to shut down the guest?

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#3 Joe_Miner

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Posted 21 July 2012 - 08:48 AM

I had it set to save the state and restart the guest when the host is turned on.

It was a little disturbing to see all my directories on the VHD drive empty -- no VHD's, VM's and my snapshots was empty. Yikes!

I know I screwed up I'm not sure how I screwed up. I'll change my stop action to shut down the guest's and hopefully that will portect me till I figure out more what I'm doing -- maybe I should hold off on the remote shutdown/restart commands too?

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WHS-2011: HP N54L G7, Kingston ECC 8GB KVR1333D3E9SK2/8G, OS: 256GB M4, 5*ST3000DM001, WD PCIe USB3, R640L, Stablebit DrivePool & Scanner -|-
Test Labs: HP N40L, G.Skill 16GB F3-1333C9D-16GAO, rr2720 -|- HP N40L, Kingston ECC 16GB KVR1333D3E9SK2/16G -|-
S2012 Hyper-V Lab: Lian-Li K9WX, GA-Z77X-UD5H, i7-3770, 32GB G.Skill, 240GB Corsair GT + various HDD's-|-
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