[Bug / Issue]: LocalBox - LocalBoxLogonScript.ps1 fails on every logon after initial deployment (missing idempotency)

[erjosito]

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What happened?

After the initial deployment completes successfully, every subsequent logon to LocalBox-Client produces errors from LocalBoxLogonScript.ps1 at line 107:

• New-StoragePool: Cannot validate argument on parameter 'PhysicalDisks'. The argument is null or empty.
• The storage pool does not have sufficient eligible resources for the creation of the specified virtual disk.

This happens because the script unconditionally attempts to create the storage pool and virtual disks without checking whether they already exist. On first boot everything succeeds, but on subsequent logons the physical disks are already claimed by the existing pool, so Get-PhysicalDisk -CanPool $true returns nothing.

The error is cosmetic (the cluster works fine), but it confuses users who see red errors on every login and may think their environment is broken.

Suggested fix — add idempotency guards:

# Before creating storage pool
if (-not (Get-StoragePool -FriendlyName "LocalBoxPool" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)) {
    $physicalDisks = Get-PhysicalDisk -CanPool $true
    if ($physicalDisks) {
        New-StoragePool -FriendlyName "LocalBoxPool" -StorageSubSystemFriendlyName "Windows Storage*" -PhysicalDisks $physicalDisks
    }
}

# Before creating virtual disk
if (-not (Get-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName "LocalBoxVDisk" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)) {
    New-VirtualDisk -StoragePoolFriendlyName "LocalBoxPool" -FriendlyName "LocalBoxVDisk" -UseMaximumSize -ResiliencySettingName Simple
}

This pattern (check-before-create) makes the logon script safely re-runnable.

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Relevant log output.

New-StoragePool: C:\LocalBox\LocalBoxLogonScript.ps1:107
Cannot validate argument on parameter 'PhysicalDisks'. The argument is null or empty.
Provide an argument that is not null or empty, and then try the command again.

The storage pool does not have sufficient eligible resources for the creation of the specified virtual disk.
The storage pool does not have sufficient eligible resources for the creation of the specified virtual disk.

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[janegilring]

Thanks for reporting this.
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