Hello,
Let me start by saying I am a new Admin to this organization and have no real Hyper-V experience. I have figured most things out until now.
We have 2 sites in different states that are Hyper-V 2012 servers (site A and site B). They are set up for HA failover locally and replication between the sites. The previous admin set all of this up. Our website in location A was running on a 2008 R2 vm with SQL 2008 SP3. The replication between locations worked.
I recently created a vm running server 2012, ColdFusion 11 to host the site in location A. I set the 2008 up as just the database server still running the same as previously mentioned.
Replication between locations has failed since the day I turned on the 2012 vm. I have not changed anything about the vm other than its IP and name, which replication doesn't seem to care about (at least that I can find).
When I look at replication health I see the following:
Virtual Machine Name | Start Date for Report | Health Monitoring Interval Ending Date | Replication Health: | Replication State: | Replication Mode: | Current Primary Server: | Current Replica Server: | Average size: | Maximum size: | Average latency: | Errors encountered: | Successful replication cycles: | Total replication cycles | Size of data yet to be replicated: | Last synchronized at: |
Production DB | 7/16/2015 4:00 | 7/16/2015 16:22 | Critical | Replication Error | Primary | 0 KB | 0 KB | 0:00:00 | 1 | 0 | 148 | 151.23 GB | 6/27/2015 9:44 |
When I try to start the VM at location B I get this:
An error occurred while attempting so start the selected virtual machine 'Production DB' failed to change state
When I try to resume replication at location A I see this:
Hyper-V could not replicate changes for virtual machine 'Production DB': The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. (0x80070020). (Virtual machine ID ACD28B43-D3FA-4E36-9014-BBB309F6316
What am I doing wrong? How can I get this working?
Any assistance will be GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!
Thank you
RIC Admin