Microsoft KB Archive Search

Notice: This website is an unofficial Microsoft Knowledge Base (hereinafter KB) archive and is intended to provide a reliable access to deleted content from Microsoft KB. All KB articles are owned by Microsoft Corporation. Read full disclaimer for more details.

  1. Home
  2. Various problems may occur when running SQL Server 2012 in Hyper-V or VMWare environment

Various problems may occur when running SQL Server 2012 in Hyper-V or VMWare environment

View products that this article applies to.

Symptoms

Consider the following scenario:
  • You try to run Microsoft SQL Server 2012 in a Hyper-V or VMware environment that is running Windows Server 2012.
  • You select a non-default hard disk drive, a hard disk other than drive C: for example, for either the shared features and the instance root directory or the database file(s) are hosted on a non-OS drive and that drive is showing as a removable storage or removable disk in Windows Explorer.
  • SQL Server is configured to run under an account other than a local system account.
  • The Portable Device Enumerator Service (Wpdbusenum.dll) version is lower than 6.2.9200.16548 [GDR] / 6.2.9200.20652 [QFE].
  • Windows Security Policy defined for Object Access [either local policy or group policy] as shown in the following screenshots:





In this scenario, you may experience one of more of the following issues:

Issue 1: The installation process fails and you receive an error message

The installation process fails, and you receive an error message that resembles the following:

Attempted to perform an unauthorized operation

Additionally, you receive the following error messages in the Summary.txt and Detail.txt files that are found in the SQL Server setup log folder:

Summary.txt
An error occurred during the setup process of the feature

Detail.txt
Attempted to perform an unauthorized operation.
HResult : 0x84bb0001
FacilityCode : 1211 (4bb)
ErrorCode : 1 (0001)
Data:
WatsonData = MSSQLSERVER
DisableRetry = true
Inner exception type: System.UnauthorizedAccessException

Note This issue also occurs when you try to perform aslipstream installation of SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1).

Issue 2: One or more SQL Server 2012 databases do not come online when SQL Server starts

One or more of your SQL Server 2012 databases sometimes do not come online when SQL Server starts after the computer is restarted. This issue may be sporadic. For example, the database may not come online after several restarts, but the database does come online after another restart. However, the virtual machine does not come online after another restart.

Additionally, the status of the SQL Server service does not change when you restart the virtual machine. If the databases does not come online when the SQL Server is first started after the restart, the database will not come online no matter how many times the SQL Server service is restarted.
However, if the database does come online, this issue does not affect the databases coming online when you restart the SQL Server service.

When this issue occurs, one or more of the following error messages may be logged in the SQL Server error log:

Error: 17207, Severity: 16, State: 1
File activation failure. The physical file name "<x:\yourpath\databaselogfilename.ldf>" may be incorrect.

Error: 17207, Severity: 16, State: 1
File activation failure. The physical file name "<x:\yourpath\databasedatafilename.mdf>" may be incorrect.

Error: 17207, Severity: 16, State: 1
File activation failure. The physical file name "<x:\yourpath\databasedatafilename.ndf>" may be incorrect.

Error: 5120, Severity: 16, State: 5.
FileMgr::StartLogFiles: Operating system error 2(The system cannot find the file specified.) occurred while creating or opening file '<x:\yourpath\databasedatafilename.ldf>'. Diagnose and correct the operating system error, and retry the operation.

Error: 5120, Severity: 16, State: 5.
FileMgr::StartLogFiles: Operating system error 2(The system cannot find the file specified.) occurred while creating or opening file '<x:\yourpath\databasedatafilename.mdf>'. Diagnose and correct the operating system error, and retry the operation.

Error: 5120, Severity: 16, State: 5.
FileMgr::StartLogFiles: Operating system error 2(The system cannot find the file specified.) occurred while creating or opening file '<x:\yourpath\databasedatafilename.ndf>'. Diagnose and correct the operating system error, and retry the operation.

Also, the status of the database is Recovery Pending:



An error message that resembles the following is logged in the Security Event log:



↑ Back to the top

Resolution

To resolve this issue, follow these steps:
  1. Install the cumulative update that is described in the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
    2811670 Issues when the Audit object access policy is enabled on Removable Storage in Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012
  2. Restart the Portable Device Enumerator Service.
  3. Force an update of group policy. To do this, type the following at an administrative command prompt and then press Enter:

    gpupdate /force
  4. Restart the guest virtual machine two times for the change to take effect.

↑ Back to the top

Workaround

To work around this issue, use one of the following methods:
  • Disable the HotAdd/HotPlug capability in VMware. For more information about how to do this, go to the following VMWare website:
    http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1012225
    Note Microsoft provides third-party contact information to help you find technical support. This contact information may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this third-party contact information.
  • Change the user account that is running the SQL Server services to a local system account.

    Note We do not recommend that you change the user account that is running the SQL Server services to a local system account.
  • Disable auditing of object access.

    Note Typically, we do not recommend that you disable auditing of object access.

↑ Back to the top

More Information

The third-party products that this article discusses are manufactured by companies that are independent of Microsoft. Microsoft makes no warranty, implied or otherwise, about the performance or reliability of these products.

↑ Back to the top

References

For more information about the Gpupdate command, visit the following TechNet website:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh852337.aspx

For more information about audit object access, visit the following TechNet website:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc776774(v=ws.10).aspx

↑ Back to the top

Keywords: kb, kbtshoot, kbsurveynew, kbexpertiseinter

↑ Back to the top

Article Info
Article ID : 2799534
Revision : 1
Created on : 1/7/2017
Published on : 10/17/2014
Exists online : False
Views : 793