Failure of virtual SCSI device, Server 2012 Hyper-V – EventId 129 – Reset to device, \DeviceRaidPort0, was issued

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Been running Server 2012 Hyper-V for a few months now quite reliably. That was until the following event started:

EventId 129 - Reset to device, \DeviceRaidPort0, was issued

When this occurs all VMs become completely unresponsive, cannot even shutdown so need to be forced off.

This particular VM (Server 2012) is using the virtual SCSI device driver with three dynamic .vhdx drives. I have checked the obvious and there is plenty of space for them all to expand into.

Found someone else with the same problem here.

It seems this maybe a (very serious) bug in the Hyper-V virtual SCSI driver.

Has anyone else encountered the same problem?

More importantly any suggested fix for this to get this server back up and running reliably?

This really is a very serious show-stopper, rather a shame because up to then hyper-v 2012 was looking quite good.

Best Answer

Thanks for the feedback otakuon, looks like we are not the only ones with this problem then. I have also reported this via the MS Partner program and am awaiting feedback from the virtual SCSI development team.

For the moment all is working again on our server and we are now using virtual SCSI driver again. Not sure which of these solved it but what we have done is:

  • Delete all temp files, defrag every drive/virtual drive on the system - this did not seem to help.
  • Uninstall: AMD Catalyst AMD Chipset Driver
  • Update Integration Services to latest version on all VMs - I suspect
    there was an Integration Services Update issued via Microsoft.
    Updates on the Hyper-V host but not also sent out to the clients via MS Update.

Perhaps one of the above solved the problem, or maybe just the wind changed direction! Either way just thought I would let you know how we got on in case this info help you.

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