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On Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, doing a virtual machine configuration refresh will fail when a Highly Available Virtual Machine (HAVM) has a dedicated pass-through disk presented to it.

Summary

Consider the following scenario:

·         You have a multiple node failover cluster

·         You have a HAVM running on this cluster

·         You have a dedicated (non-shared) volume attached to the VM through Hyper-V manager

·         You attempt to refresh the machine configuration

When the above conditions are true, the machine configuration refresh will fail as the disk can’t be added to the cluster. 

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More Information

You can either remove the dedicated disk, or share the disk to the rest of the cluster nodes, and then the machine configuration refresh will succeed. 

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Article Info
Article ID : 2383884
Revision : 1
Created on : 1/7/2017
Published on : 8/18/2010
Exists online : False
Views : 104