{"id":327,"date":"2016-11-21T12:45:15","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T12:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelstoica.com\/?p=327"},"modified":"2016-11-21T13:01:41","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T13:01:41","slug":"virtual-machine-manager-2012r2-enter-maintenance-mode-error-10434","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelstoica.com\/site\/virtual-machine-manager-2012r2-enter-maintenance-mode-error-10434\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Machine Manager 2012R2 enter maintenance mode error 10434"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I was installing updates on an HyperV cluster by entering the nodes into the maintenance mode one by one from Virtual Machine Manager. I know that updates can be done automatically using VMM or\u00a0Cluster Aware Updating, but\u00a0it&#8217;s not implemented for the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the hosts were giving the following error when entering into the maintenance mode: &#8220;<em>Error (10434) No suitable host is available for migrating the existing highly available virtual machine. Recommended Action: Either improve the host ratings for the other hosts within the same cluster, and then try the operation again, or do not migrate the virtual machines&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you will search for this error you&#8217;ll find many recommendations but none of them were\u00a0helping me out. So, I decided to start migrating the VMs one by one from the host, and luckily the first one that I tried to migrate was causing the issue. Someone created a Linux Generation 2 VM and set the operating system to a 32bit version and it&#8217;s not possible to Live Migrate a Gen2 VM with a 32bit OS.<\/p>\n<p>After I changed the VM Operating System to 64bit\u00a0from the properties I was able to enter into maintenance mode the host.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I was installing updates on an HyperV cluster by entering the nodes into the maintenance mode one by one from Virtual Machine Manager.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelstoica.com\/site\/virtual-machine-manager-2012r2-enter-maintenance-mode-error-10434\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Virtual Machine Manager 2012R2 enter maintenance mode error 10434<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,30,15,8,16,9],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-clustering","tag-high-availability","tag-hyper-v","tag-virtualization","tag-vmm","tag-windows-server","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p63Lge-5h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelstoica.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelstoica.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelstoica.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelstoica.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelstoica.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/michaelstoica.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332,"href":"https:\/\/michaelstoica.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelstoica.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelstoica.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelstoica.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}