Cheng's Random Thoughts on System Management

Senior Program Manager, MSD

Microsoft working with OVF community to improve virtual machine interoperability

Hello, I wanted to send out this quick note to update everyone on our continued focus on and...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 11/19/2012

Update on VMM refreshers - what has changed and what this means to you

Good day, folks! Since System Center 2012 SP1 Beta was released last week, we’re super excited...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 09/17/2012

System Center 2012 SP1 CTP2 SPF Installation Issue

Greetings folks, After we released our System Center 2012 SP1 CTP2 release, we've received a lot of...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 06/27/2012

System Center 2012 VMM OVF Export / Import Tool is available now.

Greetings folks! Microsoft is committed to interoperability and openness in the products and...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 06/11/2012

Mastering Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 is available now!

Greetings folks! As you're all busy getting ready for the holiday season, I'd like to introduce you...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 12/11/2009

SCVMM 2008 R2 downloadable docs are available now!

Greetings, folks! I'm pleased to let you all know that our documentation team has just published the...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 09/30/2009

It's here - SCVMM 2008 R2 RTM'ed.

Greetings folks! This is one of the very exciting mements that I have to drop whatever I'm doing and...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 08/24/2009

VMM 2008 R2 Upgrade Guide

As part of the VMM 2008 R2 launch, I'm inviting my colleague, Kerim, to provide you some information...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 08/24/2009

What’s new in VMM 2008 R2 RC?

Greetings, folks! Hope you had a good Mother's Day weekend (if you celebrate that holiday)! Since...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 05/11/2009

VMM Network Location and Network Tag

Hello there! Today I got a guest poster, my colleague, David Armour. David is a senior program...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 05/08/2009

Got a "Bad Gateway"?

Greetings, folks! Hope you had a great Easter on last Sunday, if you celebrate that holiday! My kids...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 04/14/2009

What you need to know about Maintenance Mode

Hello folks, As you can see from the news, we’ve released our beta for SCVMM 2008 R2, which...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 03/18/2009

SCVMM 2008 R2 Beta is released!

Greetings folks! I’m pleased to announce that the public Beta of SCVMM 2008 R2 is now...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 03/13/2009

VMM Security content is posted on Technet.

Greeting folks! Hot off press – Our content team has worked hard to produce a set of documents...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 03/05/2009

NIC teaming and VMM

Greetings folks, NIC Teaming, also called “Load Balancing and Fail-Over” (LBFO) or...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 02/26/2009

When should I consider running my VMM Service by using a domain account?

Greetings folks! Hope you all had a good Valentine weekend last week! If you noticed, during your...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 02/19/2009

Hyper-V Security Guide – beta now available

The Hyper-V Security Guide can help you elevate the security of virtualized Windows Server...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 02/13/2009

VMM 2008 MP is available for download!

Greetings, My colleague, Alan Goodman, has published a blog entry about the release of VMM 2008 MP,...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 02/04/2009

Managing VM hosts in a disjoint namespace environment

Greetings folks and Happy Chinese New Year to you if you celebrate that cultural tradition! Today, I...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 01/28/2009

Multiple VMs per LUN

Hi there, Rakesh just posted a new blog, through which he explains the ins and outs about the model...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 01/15/2009

Shrink your VHD size

Hello there, Happy New Year! We had a pretty big snow storm during the past Christmas in Seattle...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 01/07/2009

VMM Configuration Analyzer 2008 is now available for download!

Greetings folks, Today, I've got a guest poster, Carmen Asher, one of my colleagues in VMM team....

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 12/04/2008

Running SQL server 2008 on Hyper-V

Now the world of IT is turning its focus on consolidating the physical computers into virtual...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 10/27/2008

SCVMM 2008 RTM!

Finally, the wait is over! Today, we have released System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. For...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 10/21/2008

All about refreshers ...

If you have been using VMM for a while, you’ve probably figured out that we use various...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 10/01/2008

Two important updates for SCVMM

Working with SCVMM team, Hyper-V team and BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service) team have...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 09/24/2008

Get Virtual Now

Yes, today is a big day for Microsoft and a big day for the IT industry. We launched our full...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 09/08/2008

Install and uninstall VMM agent on Windows 2008 Server Core

Since Windows 2008 Server Core does not come with Graphical UI, managing things on Core can be a bit...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 09/08/2008

How to collect WinRM traces

Since “How to collect SCVMM traces” and “What to do when I have hosts in Needs...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 08/28/2008

DFS on VMM Library

We have seen some questions around DFS and VMM Library. Here is an attempt to explain how VMM would...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 08/26/2008

What ELSE can I do when my host is in Not Responding state?

After I posted "What to do when my host is in Not Responding state?", I received a few queries about...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 07/30/2008

Removing an ESX host or stopping managing an ESX host?

We have heard some feedback that some of our customers did not expect VMM to remove an ESX host when...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 07/09/2008

SCVMM and Network Ports We Use for Communication

More than often, deploying SCVMM server and managing VM hosts require coordination with your network...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 06/30/2008

SCVMM Beta 2008 patch to support Hyper-V RC1 is released

If you are running SCVMM 2008 Beta and you are testing Hyper-V, you know that our Beta does not work...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 06/10/2008

Clustered Hosts and HA VMs in SCVMM 2008

Why Clustering? When IT organizations start moving their physical computing environment to a...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 06/10/2008

Managing Hosts in Windows 2000 AD Forest By Using VMM 2008

As you know when you install VMM 2008 server, the computer where you want to install VMM 2008 Server...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 06/05/2008

Introducing SCVMM 2008 Performance & Resource Optimization (PRO)

What is PRO? PRO stands for Performance & Resource Optimization (in some of our Beta...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 05/21/2008

Intelligent Placement in SCVMM 2008

Intelligent Placement feature is one of the unique functionalities that you will only find in...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 05/13/2008

User Role Management and Self-Service in SCVMM 2008 Beta

One of the key new investments in SCVMM 2008 is a significantly improved User Role Management. In...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 05/09/2008

How to collect SCVMM traces

In order to diagnose a failure scenario, it is normally required to reproduce the issue and collect...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 05/08/2008

Unable to add host or hosts in "Needs Attention" state (SCVMM 2008 Beta)?

These are probably two of the most frequently asked questions in the Technet SCVMM forum. I'm unable...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 05/02/2008

Add host into VMM 2008 Beta

Well, once you finish installing VMM Server and have your admin console setup, the next you want to...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 04/30/2008

VMM 2008 Architecture

If you are in MMS 2008, you've probably seen this architecture diagram: For folks who did not get a...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 04/30/2008

Managing VMware

Why should I use VMM to manage my VMware? In Rakesh's post, he talked extensively on why we decided...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 04/30/2008

Installing SCVMM 2008 Beta

Now that you got the beta release, the first order is to set it up. Before you start, I'd highly...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 04/29/2008

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Beta has been shipped!

Greetings! Earlier this morning, at MMS 2008 (Las Vegas), we announced that SCVMM 2008 (vNext) Beta...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 04/29/2008

Hello there

Hi, My name is Cheng Wei, and I'm a program manager in SCVMM (System Center Virtual Machine Manager)...

Author: Cheng Wei Date: 04/29/2008