Recently I added a 3rd not to our Hyper-V cluster which uses cluster shared volumes. After this I started seeing errors when trying to live migrate or backup with BackupExec some of the VM's. The error was:
"The operation failed because either the specified cluster node is not the owner of the group, or the node is not a possible owner of the group"
This error is from BackupExec but the error from live migration is almost exactly the same. Looking at the VM's they all appeared to inherit the new cluster node correctly so it was not obvious what the issue was. After a bit of digging I finally figured out the problem was with the cluster shared volumes they had not added the new node as a possible owner. The normal volumes had though. to determine if this is the problem you can run the following PowerShell command:
cluster.exe res "<cluster disk name>" /listowners
e.g. cluster.exe res "test disk" /listowners
To add owners use the following command
cluster.exe res "<cluster disk name>" /addowner:<new owner>
e.g. cluster.exe res "test disk" /addowner:node3
There is no GUI option for viewing or setting these that I have found.
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Failover Cluster migrations fail
We just added a 3rd node to our Hyper-V failover cluster and everything went great right up until I tried to do a test live migration. I got the ever so helpful
Ok for fun lets try to migrate just the disks and see if i get a more helpful error:
Well that error SEEMS more helpful. Unfortunately it led me on a wild goosechase. I do some more digging and find a more helpful error on the destination machine:
live migration did not succeed at the source.Ok so going on past experience I know this has usually been the binding order to the adapters not being the same or name of the network adapter being different. So I go and check and everything looks great. The cluster passes verification and the cluster resources list all my network adapters as online and good but still a no go on the migration.
Ok for fun lets try to migrate just the disks and see if i get a more helpful error:
The operation failed because either the specified cluster node is not the owner of the group or the node is not possible owner of the group
Well that error SEEMS more helpful. Unfortunately it led me on a wild goosechase. I do some more digging and find a more helpful error on the destination machine:
live migration did not succeed at the destination.Ok this was interesting since the source machine said the problem was at the source. Long story short after a quick google I found http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2475761 it turns out I was on the right track from the beginning and although all the names looked good in the network connections area it actually cares about the names in Hyper-V Manager/Virtual Network Manager. Once I fixed those it is back to migrating.
Configuration setup for live migration failed on the destination node. Make sure that name of the virtual network is the same on the source and destination nodes, and try the live migration again.
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Cluster Shared Volume,
Hyper-V
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