Adding a Pass-through Disk to a Highly Available Virtual Machine

re: Adding a Pass-through Disk to a Highly Available Virtual Machine

Travis — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:46:06 GMT

I had to add the disk to failover cluster manager before I could be successful with this. This was done by accessing storage and then going through the add disk wizard. This should not be confused with adding the storage as a cluster shared volume.

Adding a Pass-through Disk to a Highly Available Virtual Machine

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:59:52 GMT

Courtesy of the Windows Server Setup / Core Team: http://blogs.technet.com/askcore/archive/2009/02/20/adding-a-pass-through-disk-to-a-highly-available-virtual-machine.asp

re: Adding a Pass-through Disk to a Highly Available Virtual Machine

sergio.santos — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:03:32 GMT

Hi,

Loved your blog, but when I refresh the VM configuration I get this error message:

"There was an error updating the virtual machine configuration resource. The error is: 'An error occurred while updating the Virtual Machine Configuration of resource 'Virtual Machine Configuration SRV-xxxx'. Element not found. '.

The disk is still missing from the VM cluster resources, but working fine inside the guest OS

What am I doing wrong?

Regards

Sergio Santos

re: Adding a Pass-through Disk to a Highly Available Virtual Machine

rjowens — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:40:17 GMT

I followed this process on a dev cluster that has three VMs running. I followed the process above and added a pass-thru disk to one VM. No changes were made to any of the other VMs. As stated above, I initiated a "Refresh virtual machine config...", the affect VM was placed into a Saved state, and the pass-thru disk was added to the Virtual Machine. Unfortuately, the other two VMs on the cluster were also placed into a Saved state as well. This even though no changes were made to them. To verify I restarted all VMs, made no changes and ran another refresh. Same thing, all VMs were Saved. Is this an expected response? Should all VMs be placed into a Saved state whenever a refresh config is run?

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