ANS2335E
An operation requiring the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) service has failed with the error 'errorstring'. The WMI service is in the shutting down or shutdown state. Restart the service and try again.

Explanation

The Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) service has received a request to shutdown or has been shutdown due to an external error. An internal operation which requires WMI has been attempted and failed. The requested operation is unavailable while WMI is shutdown.

All Hyper-V operations require the Windows Management Instrumentation service.

System action

An internal TSM operation involving Windows Management Instrumentation has occurred.

User response

Restart the Windows Management Instrumentation service.