Will the running VMs be impacted if I restart the "Hyper-V Virtual Machine Management" service?
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Thursday, July 19, 2012 6:09 AM
The host OS is Windows Server 2008 R2. Because of some particular reason, I have to restart the Hyper-V Virtual Machine Management service on the host. I don't know if this will impact the VMs (guest OS). This is the production environment. I don't have a lab environment to test. Thanks!
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Thursday, July 19, 2012 8:03 AM
Hi,
If you restart this service, your virtual machines will be unavailable for the time of restart.
Why do yo have to do this operation ?
David LACHARI
MVP Virtual Machine - VCP et VTSP vSphere 4.1
Blog DansTonCloud
Auteur du livre Hyper-v v2 sous Windows Server 2008 R2 -
Thursday, July 19, 2012 8:04 AM
Hi!
Restarting or stopping the Hyper-V Virtual Machine Management service should not affect running VM's, only your ability to manage them such as through Hyper-V manager.
- Proposed As Answer by FZB Thursday, July 19, 2012 8:39 AM
- Marked As Answer by BrianEhMVP, Moderator Thursday, July 19, 2012 2:41 PM
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Thursday, July 19, 2012 10:33 AM Like Andrews said, your VMs are not going to be affected by stopping/restarting the Hyper-V Virtual Machine Management service. Durring that time those VMs will dissapear from the Hyper-V Management console, and you won't be able to manage them.
Adrian Costea - MCP, MCTS, MCSA 2003, MCITP: Windows 7
My Blog: www.vkernel.ro/blog
- Marked As Answer by BrianEhMVP, Moderator Thursday, July 19, 2012 2:42 PM
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Friday, July 20, 2012 2:00 AMThanks Mike and Adrian.
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