Closed ronhowe closed 5 years ago
PlagueHO
commented
6 years ago Hi @ronhowe - it looks like there is some problem with Get-PartitionSupportedSize that gets the supported partition size on the disk using CIM.
What is the result if you run the following PowerShell command on the DSC target machine:
Get-Partition -DiskNumber 1 | Get-PartitionSupportedSize
ronhowe
commented
6 years ago PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-Partition -DiskNumber 1 | Get-PartitionSupportedSize
SizeMin SizeMax
------- -------
134217728 134217728
Get-PartitionSupportedSize : Failed
Activity ID: {f301d1c0-32b0-47d3-9843-25a53e5cf0eb}
At line:1 char:31
+ Get-Partition -DiskNumber 1 | Get-PartitionSupportedSize
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (StorageWMI:ROOT/Microsoft/.../MSFT_Partition) [Get-PartitionSupportedSize
], CimException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : StorageWMI 4,Get-PartitionSupportedSizeThe same commands works on our QA box. `
PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-Partition -DiskNumber 1 | Get-PartitionSupportedSize
SizeMin SizeMax
------- -------
33554432 33554432
3273650176 8555314688They're the same OS, same PowerShell, same DSC configuration.
The only difference is the size of the E$. In QA it is ~8 GB. In Production it is ~50 GB.
ronhowe
commented
6 years ago More debugging.
I deleted the volume and offlined the disk.
I re-ran the current configuration and it completed successfully.
I re-ran the current configuration again and it now fails on that test of the drive.
To reiterate, it's actually implementing correctly. It appears to just be failing consistency tests after the fact.
ronhowe
commented
6 years ago Relevant DSC Operations entries in the event log.
Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-DSC/Operational
Source: Microsoft-Windows-DSC
Date: 9/18/2018 8:23:52 AM
Event ID: 4252
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords:
User: SYSTEM
Computer: SAASMANAGE01.idibill.com
Description:
Job {9BC6FBD9-BB3D-11E8-A818-005056A2F90F} :
MIResult: 1
Error Message: The SendConfigurationApply function did not succeed. LCM failed to start desired state configuration manually.
Message ID: MI RESULT 1
Error Category: 0
Error Code: 1
Error Type: MI
Event Xml:
ronhowe
commented
6 years ago LOL
WOW
I found this article in Japanese and used Bing to translate it to English.
In essence, the "Optimize drives" service (defragsvc) can not be set to Startup = Disabled as this server was. It has to be set to Manual (or "higher").
I did this and it worked.
Freaking crazy.
Time to add DSC to ensure this service is set correctly before implementing storage configurations.
johlju
commented
6 years ago @ronhowe That is some awesome detective work! Sounds like the documentation for the resource should be updated with this as a requirement. Not sure if it serves any purpose, but it could also be added as a regression test to the integration tests, to see that it fails. Maybe one day it doesn't, then the requirement could be removed. 🙂
PlagueHO
commented
5 years ago Wow! Good job detecting that one @ronhowe - that is some great information. @johlju - I'll submit a PR to add some documentation for this as it is definitely an obscure "gotcha"!
#### Details of the scenario you tried and the problem that is occurring
We have had the same implementation in DSC configuration for a long time and it has worked on many servers. In this last version of the DSC Resource Kit including StorageDsc 4.1.0.0 provisioning a new server, we're now getting errors formatting the E$ drive. The Disk 1 gets mounted and a volume is created. The drive actually does get formatted and later configuration is creating files and folders there. However, Test-* is failing for some reason so overall the configuration is deemed to be failing.
#### Verbose logs showing the problem
VERBOSE: [SAASMANAGE01]: LCM: [ Start Resource ] [[Disk]FormatEDrive] VERBOSE: [SAASMANAGE01]: LCM: [ Start Test ] [[Disk]FormatEDrive] VERBOSE: [SAASMANAGE01]: [[Disk]FormatEDrive] Test-TargetResource: Testing disk with Number '1' status for drive letter 'E'. VERBOSE: [SAASMANAGE01]: [[Disk]FormatEDrive] Test-TargetResource: Checking if disk with Number '1' is initialized. Failed Activity ID: {88a8fe9c-f006-47f4-b9d4-8b7516fb9d95}
VERBOSE: [SAASMANAGE01]: [[Disk]FormatEDrive] Perform operation 'Query CimInstances' with following parameters, ''queryExpression' = SELECT BlockSize from Win32_Volume WHERE DriveLetter = 'E:','queryDialect' = WQL,'namespaceName' = root\cimv2'. VERBOSE: [SAASMANAGE01]: [[Disk]FormatEDrive] Operation 'Query CimInstances' complete. VERBOSE: [SAASMANAGE01]: LCM: [ End Test ] [[Disk]FormatEDrive] in 1.0620 seconds. The PowerShell DSC resource '[Disk]FormatEDrive' with SourceInfo 'C:\VisualStudio\IDIBilling\IDI_IDI\Infrastructure\DesiredStateConfiguration\Implementations\IDI\Configuration\Configuration.psm1::1500::13::Disk' threw one or more non-terminating errors while running the Test-TargetResource functionality. These errors are logged to the ETW channel called Microsoft-Windows-DSC/Operational. Refer to this channel for more details.
#### The DSC configuration that is used to reproduce the issue (as detailed as possible)
#### The operating system the target node is running
OsName : Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Datacenter OsOperatingSystemSKU : DatacenterServerEdition OsArchitecture : 64-bit WindowsBuildLabEx : 14393.447.amd64fre.rs1_release_inmarket.161102-0100 OsLanguage : en-US OsMuiLanguages : {en-US}
#### Version and build of PowerShell the target node is running
Name Value
PSVersion 5.1.14393.206 PSEdition Desktop PSCompatibleVersions {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...} BuildVersion 10.0.14393.206 CLRVersion 4.0.30319.42000 WSManStackVersion 3.0 PSRemotingProtocolVersion 2.3 SerializationVersion 1.1.0.1
#### Version of the DSC module that was used ('dev' if using current dev branch)
StorageDsc 4.1.0.0