Microsoft NLB Error when trying to Cluster Cloned VM’s

After configuring a few NLB VM’s recently on VMware I was intrigued when one of the people I follow on twitter was having issues with cloned NLB’s, SimonLong_ kindly agreed to document the details so I could blog about it and share his experience……

My Job; Cluster 2 VM’s using Microsoft NLB, a simple 2 minute job right? Wrong!

Why? Because my 2nd VM was a clone of the 1st.

Once I had my newly created VM’s configured I proceeded to fire up the NLB Manager tool and began to create my new cluster. Cluster configured…first VM added to the cluster, no problems.

Then I tried to add the 2nd VM… I was confronted with this Error:

“No interfaces are available for installing a new cluster”

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Great there goes my lunch break!

After a little Googling I come across this MS Support article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/828258

Because I had cloned the 2nd VM this meant that the Network Adapters on both VM’s had identical GUID’s in the registry and apparently NLB isn’t a fan of matching GUID’s.

There are two ways I found to fix this;

  1. The Lazy way (which I first used)
  2. My Recommend solution found here (which I now use, when I realised that I was being a Cowboy).

Solution 1

  • Add a second NIC to either VM that your trying to cluster
  • Remove the configuration and Disable the primary NIC
  • Configure the second NIC

You should now be able to add both VM’s to the NLB Cluster.

Solution 2

  • On either VM enter “Device Manager”
  • Expand “Network Adapters” and right mouse click on the Network adapter that you are trying to add to the NLB configuration.
  • Select ‘Uninstall’. NIC has now been uninstalled.
  • Next you want to re-add the network card which in turn will create a new GUID for it. Do this by right mouse clicking your servers name at the top of the ‘Device Manager’ list and select ‘Scan for hardware changes’. This will now re-detect the NIC and give it a new GUID.
  • Now exit out of “Device Manager”
  • Re-configure the NIC

You should now be able to add both VM’s to the NLB Cluster.

Now that I was able to add the VM into the cluster I did receive the following errors;

· Could not read configuration of interface "{DF52417D-E337-4543-A223-8D17514E02BC}": error 0x800706ba

· Update 2 failed with error 0x800706ba

Ignore it the VM still seems to converge fine into the cluster.

4 thoughts on “Microsoft NLB Error when trying to Cluster Cloned VM’s

  1. Jeff C

    Thank you for this post. I had the same experiences with two metal servers that had been deployed from the same image. After searching the Internet, I found the MS KB article, and thus took option 2, subsequently getting the same error messages you did. I was trying to figure out what to do about them and googled to your article. Sure enough, after reading your article, I selected refresh on the cluster, and the second node moved from status “Misconfigured” to “Converged.”

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  3. Sethu

    I am also facing the smilar issue in windows 2003 ent edition +sp2 server. please check and let me know, if any one has solution for the same.

    0005 Error 1/8/2009 7:33:28 AM RTAITHQCRMAP02 Could not read configuration of interface “{8D4637AC-7D9B-48CD-9660-9F83AB92B744}”: error 0x800706ba
    0006 Error 1/8/2009 7:33:57 AM 172.24.96.152 Access denied, error connecting to “172.24.96.152”
    0007 Error 1/8/2009 7:33:57 AM 172.24.96.150 RTAITHQCRMAP02 Update 2 failed with error 0x800706ba
    0008 Information 1/8/2009 7:33:57 AM 172.24.96.150 RTAITHQCRMAP02 End configuration change
    0009 Error 1/8/2009 7:34:57 AM RTAITHQCRMAP02 Could not read configuration of interface “{8D4637AC-7D9B-48CD-9660-9F83AB92B744}”: error 0x80070005
    0010 Error 1/8/2009 7:34:57 AM 172.24.96.152 Access denied, error connecting to “172.24.96.152”

    sethu.ramalingam@wipro.com

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