# Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Clustered Hyper-V showing 'Saved-Critical' and failing to restore virtual machine state

I rebooted my clustered Hyper-V server. When I logged back on a test Virtual Server was showing a 'Saved-Critical' state. Attempting to start it resulted in the error message 'failed to restore virtual machine state'.

The issue? I had not made the VM clustered, so it was trying to launch the server without having access to the drive where the VM was stored. DOH!!!

Roll it back and start it, no problemo....

Clustering | Virtual Server
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