Hello Everyone,
I have a question regarding an issue I just came across.
ESX v5.5 as vcenter
two(2) guests: 1 running windows server 2008 R2 / 1 running windows server 2012 R2. Both running on the vHost and all vmdks on the same DataStore
VM Guest with windows 2008 R2 has two(2) vmdk: One for OS, one for Data drive.
VM Guest with windows 2012 R2 has one(1) vmdk: OS.
I needed to move the data vmdk file from VM Guest 1 to VM Guest 2.
1. Shut down both Guests
2.- Open vCenter -> Browse DataStore -> Open Folder Source Guest -> Selecte vmdk -> right click -> move to -> Browse to Destination Guest and drop.
3.- Watch the vmdk being transfered until finished.
4.- Assign newly copied vmdk to 2nd VM Guest -> Vm Settings -> Add hardware -> disk -> use an existing file (Something like it) ->
The end result was that the target VM Guest has two(2) disks. When booted, newly added disk could not be accessed through the network (for example \\server_name\F$ ...) with an access denied error, even for the Server's local administrator. I created Share folders, assign local users who are in the local Administrator grouprs FC permissions... everyone got Access denied... even from the cmd prompt through a simple net use command, I could map the network drive, but when I changed to it (f: ...) and type dir ... I would get "Access denied".
I read about the Audit Object in Windows... followed some knowledge TIDs from MS... no luck. Has anyone come across something like this? What did you do to solve it? ...
Only after 2GB of updates to the windows Server 2012 R2 was only the administrator allowed access to the administrative and folder shares, no other user is allowed.
Hoping someone has any ideas...
Thanks.