Timetable Posted July 9, 2016 Posted July 9, 2016 Hi All, Not sure if this should be in Server 2008 forum or Server 2012, move if need be. We had a broken hard drive in a server running Hyper-V2012. The drive was the D drive and not the c drive so we replaced it and restored the virtual servers data to the replaced drive and thought we had nothing better to do that start up the virtual servers..... Well, the first two servers came on with no problems other than we had to reset their IP address details as they had gone back to DHCP. These two servers were running Server 2012 r2 and are now merrily working away. The third server, our SIM's server, was still running server 2008 r2. It came back online but it will not recognise a network card. If I add a legacy adaptor in its virtual settings it appears on the machine as an Ethernet adapter with an exclamation mark. If you update the driver it comes up with a code 1 error and will not let it run. If I add a network card to the virtual settings it appears as an unknown device, but I get the same error when I try to update its driver, it picks it up as a network card, but just wont run. On the hyperv server I have tried un-teaming the network cards and assigning them individually and teamed (they were teamed originally, as the hyper v server never went down just the virtual machines stored on the broke drive). So, any ideas? I have seen bits on the internet that have the same issue but they re-installed the server, I want to avoid this as there's lots of little connectors on the server and would have to get the different firms in to re-install these and will take time... A lot say its due to the network cards dhcp/ip settings that get mixed during the restore of the virtual machine, if anyone has any ideas how to reset these it would be great... I have tried restoring it to a different server and get the same result. any help greatly appreciated, and if anyone has a SIM's server install guide that would be great as starting to setup a new server just in-case I cant get the original one working.
snagrat Posted July 9, 2016 Posted July 9, 2016 The only other time I have seen this is when the VM has the HyperV role installed. Has it? 1
Timetable Posted July 9, 2016 Author Posted July 9, 2016 Yes Integrated services are and it wont let me install them again....
Timetable Posted July 9, 2016 Author Posted July 9, 2016 I cant access the roles on the server as it wont load into safemode and when I select roles it states its loading roles and sits for over an hour
snagrat Posted July 9, 2016 Posted July 9, 2016 Is HyperV in the administrative tools? That's one way to check 1
Timetable Posted July 9, 2016 Author Posted July 9, 2016 (edited) never thought to look there... but no they aren't, didn't think they were. I think I have narrowed it down to the DCHP client service. I cant stop it or disable it.... need to edit registry for it, just don't know where.. will look.. Edited July 9, 2016 by Timetable
Timetable Posted July 9, 2016 Author Posted July 9, 2016 Thank you for your help, especially on a Saturday... I have fixed it. There were rogue svchost.exe services running.. so I stopped them all and then then the add new hardware wizard kicked into like and installed the virtual adapter with HCP enabled. Set a static IP address and hey presto..!!
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