Help! Server not booting correctly - Lost my Sims drive

[Sonic007]

Network crashed this morning and got things back up.

 

My Sims drive is a virtual drive in HyperV.

 

Users can access Sims but running very slow and I cant map the Sims H: drive on any machine.

 

I can however ping the Sims servers IP address and remote into the server.

 

When I login it is telling me it Failed to connect to Windows Services which I'm assuming is killing off a lot of services. "Failed to connect to the user profile service"

A quick look in services shows me plenty of automatic services that arent able to run. Possibly killing the Shared Sims folder? Other shared folders like our public drive are u though.

 

Somethings messed up somewhere. Anyone help on this Friday thats turning into hell for me right now.

 

 

Thankyou.

Edited October 4, 2019 by Sonic007

[3s-gtech]

If your DB is intact and backed up, I'd look at restoring the server from a backup - it'd be difficult to unpick where all of those faults are coming from (though .NET being removed or out of date can do that to SIMS). That wouldn't affect the shares.

[bald_pig]

You have free space on the vhd? running out of storage can cause these kinds of issues.

[Sonic007]

Yeah drive has enough space.

 

Looking at it I can see that the shares that have come up are on another machine. Any that are on the Sims server including simserver and our sdn share hasnt come up.

 

A lot of server and sharing services are not starting on the sims server which I think is where the issue is. But how I get these to restart without errors Im stumped at the moment.

Edited October 4, 2019 by Sonic007

[3s-gtech]

There will likely be dependencies that are missing or damaged. The errors that come up should help point you towards what those may be. As I stated though - it may be quicker to roll it back to a backup or rebuild the server at this stage, or at least spin up a new VM which you can transfer the DB etc to.