We have a server 2012 standard hosting 2 Hyper-V machines, one is our Exchange and the other our App server.
We had a power outage last night and it looks that the host shut down cleanly but the VM's did not.I checked the event logs and the VM's are showing an unexpected shut down exactly the same time as the Host server. The host server event logs is showing "Event
6006" which to me is a clean shutdown.
Hyper-V Guest Shutdown Service is running on both VM's. On the Host that service was set to "Manual (Trigger Start)". I'm not sure what that means but I changed it to "Automatic (Trigger Start)"
Also, I tried to start HV Guest Shutdown Service on the host server but it just starts and stops. Is that because the startup type is set to "Trigger start"?
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks