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I think your best bet is to take a SAN based snapshot then use a non-CSV aware OS to copy the raw files off the snapshot.
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I think your best bet is to take a SAN based snapshot then use a non-CSV aware OS to copy the raw files off the snapshot.

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I had a 3 node Windows 2008 cluster each running hyper v. <br />
The domain controller for the environment was lost and no longer exists. <br />
One of the servers was rebooted and no longer is seen as a clustered server. Its still listed as a node just not able to start the cluster services,<br />
I can not turn on one of the vm's because there is not enough resources on the two clustered servers.<br />
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I think what needs to happen is move the vm from one of the clustered servers to the server that was rebooted. <br />
But the OS sees the storage drives as offline reserved. I would think you should be able to attach to the same vm storage drive &nbsp;should you not, even if the server is not part of the cluster any longer?
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I had a 3 node Windows 2008 cluster each running hyper v. 
The domain controller for the environment was lost and no longer exists. 
One of the servers was rebooted and no longer is seen as a clustered server. Its still listed as a node just not able to start the cluster services,
I can not turn on one of the vm's because there is not enough resources on the two clustered servers.

I think what needs to happen is move the vm from one of the clustered servers to the server that was rebooted. 
But the OS sees the storage drives as offline reserved. I would think you should be able to attach to the same vm storage drive  should you not, even if the server is not part of the cluster any longer?

Manually migrate Hyper V VM from 2008 cluster

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