Hyper-V and CIFS outage due to unavailable Active Directory
Applies to
- ONTAP
- CIFS
- Hyper-V
Issue
- Microsoft Domain Controller (DC) hosting Active Directory (AD) and Domain Name System (DNS) services are hosted on virtual machine (VM) on a single Hyper-V server
- The Hyper-V server is impacted with an outage causing it to go offline
- On recovering from the outage, the Hyper-V server is not able to initialize services
- Users are unable to access CIFS shares with authentication errors