Keep having to re-attach Storage Pool after a reboot.

[Fazza]

Connected to a Server 2016 Hyper-V host is an array of JBODs set up in Storage Pools.

 

The server only had 1 hard disk drive for the OS so no redundancy. Recently purchased a second hard disk drive for the server so it is now mirrored. We have re-installed Server 2016 on to the server and attached the virtual disk to the server.

 

The problem we have is after a reboot when we log back on we have to keep re-attaching the virtual disk:

 

 

Surely it should do this automatically (like before the OS re-install) or am I doing something wrong?

[kmount]

Maybe this is relevant? - https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/virtual_pc_guy/2015/09/18/fixing-a-storage-space-that-does-not-attach-on-reboot/

[Fazza]

That could be it! Just run get-virtualdisk and it is indeed set to manually attach so I shall change it to False and reboot in a bit to prove it (just waiting for the backup to complete).

 

[EDIT]

 

The command in the screenshot shown in the above link didnt work for us and by the looks of things it didnt work for a lot of other people.

 

It's seems on re-attaching a storage pool to a different/replacement server installation it is set to manually attach by default! The way to change it (that worked for us) is as follows:

 

 

Get-VirtualDisk | Where-Object {$_.IsManualAttach –eq $True}

Get-VirtualDisk | Where-Object {$_.IsManualAttach –eq $True} | Set-VirtualDisk –IsManualAttach $False

Edited May 16, 2019 by Fazza