SCVMM 2012 R2 VM on SMB 3.0 file share cloning is not offloaded and painfully slow

I setup a test environment, it appears the SCVMM always use BITS to clone VM that was painfully slow
SCVMM1: SCVMM 2012 R2 with the latest windows update
VHOST1 and VHOST2: Hyper-V Host. Windows Server 2012 R2 with the latest update
SERVER1: Windows File server, with Windows Server 2012 R2 with the latest update. The storage is a single 512GB SSD.
All VMs are located at a file share on SERVER1, the share is managed by SCVMM1 also.
All computers have plenty of RAM (8G+) and modern processor. The individual I/O benchmark on SERVER1 is typical SSD speed. Each VHOST has dedicated NIC for VM use. Each
server has two gigabit NICs on same switch for data.
The step to reproduce:
1. Create a Windows 7 x86 VM on VHOST1 and install OS on it. The VM is placed on the SERVER1 file share. It runs well. no problem, VM performance is good.
2. In SCVMM console, right clicks the VM and select "Create Clone", the deployment target is on the same SMB share as the source VM.
Actual: It appears SCVMM clone the VM files with BITS, it is painfully slow. All data travel through network. Estimated 30 minutes for 30GB file!
Expected result: SCVMM uses SMB 3.0 to make the copy. The source and destination are on the same SMB 3.0 share. The transfer of data should be offloaded by SERVER1, instead of reading all data then write it back cross network. (And from unknown reason the
BITS is even much slower than network file copy).
Did I miss anything? Any way to force SCVMM to do such offload copy? Any help would be appreciated.

Hi acacac1,
>>Actual: It appears SCVMM clone the VM files with BITS, it is painfully slow. All data travel through network. Estimated 30 minutes for 30GB file!
Did you try to disable BITS then clone the VM again for test ?
Any further information please feel free to let us know .
Best Regards,
Elton Ji
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Hi new_guise,
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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc764334.aspx
Also please refer to following article regarding that error message ：
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2721457
Best Regards,
Elton Ji
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TCP    0.0.0.0:443            0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
TCP    0.0.0.0:445            0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
TCP    0.0.0.0:1801           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
TCP    0.0.0.0:2103           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
TCP    0.0.0.0:2105           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
TCP    0.0.0.0:2107           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
TCP    0.0.0.0:3389           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
TCP    0.0.0.0:5985           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
TCP    0.0.0.0:8000           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
TCP    0.0.0.0:8100           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
TCP    0.0.0.0:8101           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
TCP    0.0.0.0:8102           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
TCP    0.0.0.0:8103           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
TCP    0.0.0.0:47001          0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
TCP    0.0.0.0:49152          0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
TCP    0.0.0.0:49153          0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
TCP    0.0.0.0:49154          0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
TCP    0.0.0.0:49155          0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
TCP    0.0.0.0:49156          0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
TCP    0.0.0.0:49170          0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
TCP    0.0.0.0:49201          0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
TCP    0.0.0.0:49211          0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
TCP    127.0.0.1:57388        0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
TCP    172.23.16.69:139       0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING

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   at System.IO.StreamWriter..ctor(String path, Boolean append, Encoding encoding, Int32 bufferSize)
   at System.IO.StreamWriter..ctor(String path, Boolean append)
   at System.IO.File.AppendText(String path)
   at Microsoft.VirtualManager.SetupFramework.CommonLogger.Log(String trace)
   at Microsoft.VirtualManager.SetupFramework.CommonLogger.Log(LogLevel level, String trace)
   at Microsoft.VirtualManager.SetupFramework.Trc.Log(LogLevel level, String trace, Object parameter1, Object parameter2, Object parameter3)
   at Microsoft.VirtualManager.SetupFramework.Trc.LogException(LogLevel logLevel, String customMessage, Exception exception)
   at Microsoft.VirtualManager.Setup.DBConfigurator.ExecuteScript(SqlContext ctx, String fileName)
   at Microsoft.VirtualManager.Setup.DBConfigurator.UpgradeDatabaseTables()
   at Microsoft.VirtualManager.Setup.VirtualMachineManagerHelpers.CreateDB()
   at Microsoft.VirtualManager.Setup.InstallItemCustomDelegates.PangaeaServerPostinstallProcessor()
12:23:31:ProcessInstalls: Running the PostProcessDelegate returned false.
12:23:31:ProcessInstalls: Running the PostProcessDelegate for PangaeaServer failed.... This is a fatal item. Setting rollback.
12:23:31:SetProgressScreen: FinishMinorStep.
12:23:31:ProcessInstalls: Rollback is set and we are not doing an uninstall so we will stop processing installs
12:23:31:****************************************************************
12:23:31:****Starting*RollBack*******************************************
12:23:31:****************************************************************
12:23:31:SetProgressScreen: StartMinorStep.
Mark E. Scott Jr.

Perhaps relevant, perhaps not. This error shows up right after the above log snippet. I assumed it was an error with the rollback routine, but just in case, here it is:
12:23:31:SetProgressScreen: StartMinorStep.
12:23:31:ProcessInstalls: Install Item VMM management server has a Preprocessing delegate of PangaeaServerPreinstallProcessor. Launching it now.
12:23:31:GetSqlLoginName: TThe login name for the vmm server service is [DGSLAB\tfs-vmm]
12:24:49:no HAVMM name detected in DB. Doing VMM Uninstall
12:24:53:Start setspn.exe parameters -D SCVMM/tfsvmm1.dgslab.com DGSLAB\tfs-vmm
12:24:56:Start setspn.exe parameters -D SCVMM/tfsvmm1 DGSLAB\tfs-vmm
12:25:00:DBConfigurationHander.SetupAsVMMServerRole() CarmineException : Threw Exception.Type: Microsoft.VirtualManager.Utils.FailedToAcquireLockException, Exception.Message: Unable to perform the job because one or more of the selected objects are locked by
another job.
To find out which job is locking the object, in the Jobs view, group by Status, and find the running or canceling job for the object. When the job is complete, try again.
12:25:00:StackTrace:   at Microsoft.VirtualManager.Utils.CarmineObjectLock.ExecuteAcquireLockSP(CarmineObjectLockType lockType)
   at Microsoft.VirtualManager.Utils.CarmineObjectLock.AcquireLockWithRetries(CarmineObjectLockType lockType)
   at Microsoft.VirtualManager.Utils.CarmineObjectLock.AcquireLock(CarmineObjectLockType lockType, Boolean doNotWaitForLock)
   at Microsoft.VirtualManager.DB.Adhc.AgentServer..ctor(RemoteServer server, Guid serverID, Version agentVersion, VersionState agentVersionState, AgentPackageType agentPackageType, Boolean wsManOverSSL, Int32 wsManPort, Nullable`1 complianceStatusID,
Nullable`1 mostRecentTaskID, Nullable`1 mostRecentTaskUIState, Guid taskID, CarmineObjectLockType lockType)
   at Microsoft.VirtualManager.DB.Adhc.AgentServer..ctor(SqlRow row, Guid serverID, Guid taskID, CarmineObjectLockType lockType)
   at Microsoft.VirtualManager.DB.Adhc.AgentServer.<>c__DisplayClass4.<GetInstance>b__3(SqlRow row)
   at Microsoft.VirtualManager.Engine.DbAccessHelper.GetFromCommand[_RetTy,_ColumnsTy](ReadOption readOption, SqlRetryCommand cmd, GetFromCommandWorker`1 worker)
   at Microsoft.VirtualManager.Engine.DbAccessHelper.HandleReadErrors[_RetTy](DbAccessDelegate`1 func, ErrorInfo notFoundErrorInfo)
   at Microsoft.VirtualManager.DB.Adhc.AgentServer.GetOne(String computerName, GetFromCommandWorker`1 ctor, ConnectionProperties properties)
   at Microsoft.VirtualManager.Setup.DBConfigurator.SetupAsVMMServerRole(Boolean isAssociate)
12:25:00:InnerException.Type: Microsoft.VirtualManager.DB.DBCorruptionException, InnerException.Message: Unable to connect to the VMM database because the database is in an inconsistent state.
Contact an experienced SQL administrator whenever this error occurs. In some cases, it may be necessary to restore the VMM database. If the problem persists, contact Microsoft Help and Support.
12:25:00:InnerException.StackTrace:   at Microsoft.VirtualManager.DB.SqlRetryCommand.ValidateReturnValue()
   at Microsoft.VirtualManager.DB.SqlRetryCommand.ExecuteNonQuery()
   at Microsoft.VirtualManager.Utils.CarmineObjectLock.ExecuteAcquireLockSP(CarmineObjectLockType lockType)
Mark E. Scott Jr.

After host crash - cluster no longer working correctly in SCVMM 2012

Hi
one of our nodes in our cluster crashed. It came back. All the VMs on this host were running on other hosts so failover worked fine BUT for 2 VMs. One of those 2 VMs is - according to VMM - running on the crashed host. The other VM is - according to VMM
- running on another host node which did not fail.
I have a lot of job errors saying that VMM library object virtuals disk is missing of those two VMs. So I looked into the FailoverManager. There I was able to see that the VMs are running on totaly different host nodes then what VMM tells me. In addition
those VMs work just fine. I connected to both of them over Hpyer-V and they are just fine and the application also work without a problem. Please not those VMs are not shown twice or missing in VMM.
Live Migration to the Host node that crashed is no longer possible. But when looking into the status on VMM - it tells me that everything is fine. From Hpyer-V Manager I am able to do live migration to this host. But no longer from VMM console.
I rebooted the host node with no change. I refreshed the host nodes (all) in FailoverManager and in SCVMM, I refreshed the cluster... nothing. So I wanted to remove the cluster from SCVMM and re-add it. Doesn't work... It started with the first host and
after that my cluster was somewhat broken (I thought that removing cluster - NOT "uncluster" - wouldn't have an effect on the cluster itself - well I was wrong). Anyway I repaired the cluster it is back into VMM but I still have the issues with the VMs. There
are only warning on the VMM server that the library object (vhd) is missing but on the cluster nodes itself there are no errors.
Any ideas what I could do. I have no clue what to do about the VM which is supposed to be on this host but in FailoverManager it is on a totally different server. Any ideas?

Hi,
version is SCVMM 2012 RC - yes there were errors with live migration but unfortunately I receive so many warning messages now (about missing library objects for vhd files) that the errors from tuesday are already gone. I guess they might be in database ...
The log files you asked for are from 2011 when the cluster was created - no entries after that.
No the cluster is not in Maintenance or Pause mode - i checked that. Remove and re-join the cluster with VMM 2012 RC was already tried. As described above: that failed - the first cluster node was removed and after that the job failed in VMM. I found the
error message quite ironic because it said that "cluster node 1" is no longer reachable. Nooo really... it just had been removed a second before the "remove cluster" job failed. Unfortunately this job played havoc with my cluster. It took me 4 hours to bring
it back online (mostly VMs).
The good thing is, my cluster is somewhat working again - meaning after I repaired it and was able to re-add the missing cluster node back into VMM live migration now works both from Hyper-V and from SCVMM. The VERY bad part is that now several more VMs
are - according to VMM - runing on "cluster node 1" while the Failover Manager says they are runing on "cluster node 2 or 3...". In addition I get many more warning messages. This error is the one I am trying to eleminate. As said I haven't found anything
which helped me narrow done a solution. Everything I tried so far didn't have any response or - like the cluster - it made things quite bad (temporary). I checked the Event logs on the cluster nodes and VMM itself. Currently there are no error messages there.
Warning messages in VMM:
Warning (23234) VM Refresher encountered an error while creating or updating <vm name> with id XXXXX. VMM cannot find VirutalHardDisk object XXX. Ensure the library object is valid, and then try the operation again.
Warning (10647) The virtual network adapter for the virtual machine <vm name> is connected to a virtual network switch <swtich name> that is not valid.
Does anyone know how to change the time interval of the "VM Refresher"? I get those warning messages for each VM every 2 min. As there are several VMs affected by now I have several thousend messages each day...

SCVMM 2012 R2 - install fails on creation of resource group

Hi,
When I run the installation for SCVMM 2012 R2, I get the error below:
20200
Creation of the VMM resource group (%GroupName;) failed.
Ensure that the group name is valid, and cluster resource or group with the same name does not exist, and the group name is not used in the network.
Permissions have been granted to AD containers and cluster. Cluster is online and pinging. I'm installing as an SCVMM administrator and also tried with Domain Admins.
Any ideas? Thanks, Matt.

The IP address was in use by the cluster. The IP has to be free (not pingable) and host name must not already exist in AD. Fixed.

How to get the details of a LUN (Storage Logical Units) presented to an ESX host thru SCVMM 2012

Hi,
We are working with a UI Add-in for SCVMM 2012 where we should support both Hyper-v and ESX hosts. When added the ESX host and presented few LUNs (out of band operation) from the HP 3PAR array,
we are unable to view the Storage details like Storage Logical unit, Storage Pool and Storage Array when we select the same LUN in the Classification and Pools section of SCVMM.
We tried even with the PowerShell, but couldn’t help. Can you please guide us, how we can get the storage details of a LUN presented to the ESX host which is added in the SCVMM 2012.
Thanking you.
Regards,
Hari

Hi Jiannan,
No worries, you can go to UDDI client from the main page of PI i.e. http://<serverName>:<serverPort>/
And you use the search function for the TModel for your Physical System. Search parameters can use the % wildcard.
Hit the search and you find the UDDI Key for the Physical System.
Cheers.
Hemant Chahal

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