While looking through our new Windows 2008 SP2 server event logs, I noticed this unusual error:
| Log Name: |
System |
| Source: |
storflt |
| Event ID: |
5 |
| Task Category: |
None |
| Level: |
Warning |
| Keywords: |
Classic |
| User: |
N/A |
| Description: |
The Virtual Storage Filter Driver is disabled through the registry. It is inactive for all disk drives. |
After a little research, I found a knowledgebase article 951007 on Microsoft’s site.
How Microsoft explains this error message is so amusing to me….
If Windows Server 2008 is not running on a Hyper-V Server, this issue will not affect the performance of the operating system. Therefore, you can safely ignore this event.
Basically it’s another Warning message filling my event logs for not using a feature of the product!