Windows Server 2008 R2 & Hibernation
Hi,I'm currently running a Windows Server 2008 R2 with Exchange 2010. Since this is only a test installation, I configured this machine to hibernate after one hour. However, this doesn't work, the machine doesn't goto sleep. Running "powercfg -energy" doesn't show any indication, what could be reason for that. It may be related to Exchange since the server went to sleep before I installed Exchange. Does anyone know how to enable hibernation on a server running Exchange? Thanks in advance,Clemens
February 12th, 2010 6:48pm
Did you add the Hyper-V role?MVP Setup and Deployment - http://www.forum-microsoft.org
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February 12th, 2010 7:11pm
Hi Clemens,Kazer's question makes sense. If the Hyper-V role is enabled on Windows Server 2008, the hiternate power feauter will be not available, and this is dy design.Sleep and hibernate power features are not available when you enable Hyper-V technology on a Windows Server 2008-based portable computerhttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/954418If there is no Hyper-V role, you may refer to the KB 920730 to enable hibernation.How to disable and re-enable hibernation on a computer that is running Windows http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920730Hope it helps.David ShenBest Regards,This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
February 15th, 2010 5:30am
Hi David,Thanks for the information. Unfortunately both hints don't help. Hyper-V isn't enabled and hibernation is enabled. However, the server is not going to sleep. As I mentioned, it might be related to Exchange 2010, since before installing this everything worked as expected.Best Regards,Clemens
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February 18th, 2010 3:49pm
That KB mentions the feature is not enable on a portable computer. I am using a server (not in a laptop) and hibernation is not enable.
Any ideas why?
April 30th, 2011 11:05am
Hello ,
run powercfg /a and report back the output.
Also look at the System Event logs for
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April 30th, 2011 3:17pm
Hi Darrell, this is what I get:
C:\Users\Administrator>powercfg /a
The following sleep states are not available on this system:
Standby (S1)
The system firmware does not support this standby state.
An internal system component has disabled this standby state.
Standby (S2)
The system firmware does not support this standby state.
An internal system component has disabled this standby state.
Standby (S3)
The system firmware does not support this standby state.
An internal system component has disabled this standby state.
Hibernate
An internal system component has disabled hibernation.
Hybrid Sleep
Didn't find any error reltated to this under Kernel-Power and no error has been recorded under Power-Troubleshooter.
Thanks.
May 1st, 2011 8:11am
Hello Machajwai,
Have you run powercfg /energy?
can you post the output of that?
How much RAM in the server?
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May 1st, 2011 5:10pm
I just ran it, the output is here:
http://it24x7.biz/energy-report.html
Server has 8 GB Ram. Basically it is a stand alone server running Hyper-V with 3 VMs.
Thanks,
Jose
May 1st, 2011 8:54pm
Hi Clemens,
Kazer's question makes sense. If the Hyper-V role is enabled on Windows Server 2008, the hiternate power feauter will be not available, and this is dy design.
Sleep and hibernate power features are not available when you enable Hyper-V technology on a Windows Server 2008-based portable computer
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954418
If there is no Hyper-V role, you may refer to the KB 920730 to enable hibernation.
How to disable and re-enable hibernation on a computer that is running Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920730
Hope it helps.
David Shen
Best Regards,
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Machajwai,
Did you miss this part of the discussion. You cannot hibernate a server running Hyper-V!Bill
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May 1st, 2011 10:00pm
I didn't, I just wanted to confirm this with all hardware since the title says:
Sleep and hibernate power features are not available when you enable Hyper-V technology on a Windows Server 2008-based
PORTABLE computer
Thanks.
May 2nd, 2011 11:04am
Hello Machajwai,
It does apply to desktop machines as well as portable machines, we will get that content updated
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May 2nd, 2011 2:34pm