Hyper-V backup fails to backup VM with “Failed to find VM on cluster” on NODE1 but the backup works using NODE2
Extract from binary log:
Job Message 2017/10/24 00:15:00 500 Jobs NV1 Clustered Application CLU1 is running on real machine NODE1
Job Message 2017/10/24 00:15:01 500 Data Plugin NODE1 Plug-in for Hyper-V 11.2.0.2 backup
Job Message 2017/10/24 00:15:01 500 Data Plugin NODE1 Number of VMs selected for backup: 2
Error 2017/10/24 00:15:04 500 Data Plugin NODE1 VM [VM1]: Failed to find VM on cluster 'CLU1'
Error 2017/10/24 00:15:04 500 Data Plugin NODE1 VM [VM1]: Backup failed
Error 2017/10/24 00:15:06 500 Data Plugin NODE1 VM [VM2]: Failed to find VM on cluster 'CLU1'
Error 2017/10/24 00:15:07 500 Data Plugin NODE1 VM [VM2]: Backup failed
Looking at the VM’s on the Hyper-V console the VM’s showed as clustered
Listed cluster VM’s for PowerShell on NODE1 using commands below and no VM’s were listed
Open PowerShell as administrator
1/ Import-Module "<path > \NetVault Backup\scripts\HyperV\v2\UtilModuleV2"
2/ Import-Module "<path > \NetVault Backup\scripts\HyperV\UtilModule"
3/ cd "<path > \NetVault Backup\scripts\HyperV\v2"
4/ .\GetVms.ps1 <cluster node name> –isCluster
Listed local VM’s from PowerShell command below and VM’s were listed.
Get-vm
Problem with failover cluster feature on Node1
Speak to Microsoft to find root cause.
On this occasion reinstall of failover cluster feature on Node 1 resolved the problem. Before doing this please take advice from Microsoft.
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