The quest for the source of the foul stench, part 2

Part 1:https://lokna.no/?p=1837

On a rainy day, one adventurous minion traveled the dark and lonesome road to the physical realm of the troublesome hypervisor with the itchy connection to The Wastelands of Nexus. The minion scratched and scratched the hypervisors itchy back, until the rotten residue from the horrors of Nexus was all gone. He then presented the troublesome hypervisor with a new and shiny armor plate, and it was yet again prepared to rejoin The Wastelands of Nexus with a fresh and healthy connection.

Alas, the minions work had all been in vain. When the poor hypervisor on host 2 tried sending data through The Wasteland of Nexus and into the spirit world, it was unable to get a response. The ghost within was still restless, and upon investigation the foul stench came back and seemed to originate from the pipeline better known as HyperV1.

I borrowed a hazardous environment suit from a man with a red crowbar and went to investigate. A foul-smelling substance oozed out of the pipeline, and I wondered how the poor servers were able to survive in such an environment. I plugged the pipeline, and as soon as I had washed off the foul-smelling substance and placed the rags in an airproof yellow hazmat-container, the stench subsided and I was able to breathe freely. The virtual servers were able to get a stable connection to The Wasteland of Nexus through the spare pipeline known as HyperV2, and the ghosts rejoiced in happiness, as they were again able to communicate with the spirit world.

But the adventure was not yet over. We were no closer to identifying the source of the smelly substance. All we know is that it enters the hypervisor in the physical realm outside the host itself. May it be that the connections going into the physical server has gone bad? I would have to dispatch another minion into the physical realm of the hypervisors to look for answers…

Armed with this knowledge, an infrastructure minion scurried over to the physical realm of the hypervisor once again. This time she tried changing the place of Host 2 with Host 4. As feared, the failure followed the slot over to Host 4. This meant one of two things. May it be that the people of The Wasteland of Nexus had deceived us, and the connection was actually faulty at their end after all? Or could it be even worse; a problem in the magic cabinet of the silver slanted E? Into which all these hosts had to be inserted? The mere thought was enough to make the minions shudder, as everything branded with the mark of the silver slanted E was notoriously difficult to troubleshoot.

At long last, the Knights of Hyper-V decided that enough was enough. They ordered the minions to move host 4 into another functioning slot, and vitrify both the slot in the magic cabinet and the pipe going to The Wasteland of Nexus to make sure they were never used again. They further swore to expel anyone caught trying to bring more equipment bearing the mark of the silver slanted E into the physical domain. At last, the ghosts within the hypervisors were happy again, and the minions rejoiced for a couple of minutes before they went on to the next trouble ticket.

Author: DizzyBadger

SQL Server DBA, Cluster expert, Principal Analyst

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