Greetings, folks! I'm pleased to let you all know that our documentation team has just published the doanloadable version of SCVMM 2008 R2 documents at here : http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=162764 Available documents for download are: · Deployment Guide · Guide...

Greetings folks! This is one of the very exciting mements that I have to drop whatever I'm doing and tell you about this. :-) I've been busy on a few things. So sorry for not able to post much information lately. And I'll tell you about what I was working on in a few months. We're baking something...

Hello there! Today I got a guest poster, my colleague, David Armour. David is a senior program manager responsible for SCVMM 2008's Networking feature. Based on the questions he has seen on the Technet SCVMM forum , he wanted to post this information out to help clarify the concepts and usage of Network...

Greetings, folks! Hope you had a great Easter on last Sunday, if you celebrate that holiday! My kids certainly enjoyed hunting eggs in a typical Seattle drizzling Saturday morning. J This blog entry is for folks who use or plan to use VMM to manage VMware ESX hosts. If this is your...

Hello folks, As you can see from the news , we’ve released our beta for SCVMM 2008 R2, which offers support to Windows Server 2008 R2 (live migration, etc.) and a bunch of exciting new features. Today, I wanted to introduce to you our new VMM Maintenance Mode feature in VMM R2. ...

Greetings folks! I’m pleased to announce that the public Beta of SCVMM 2008 R2 is now available for download at our connect site . Since shipping SCVMM 2008 in last October, our team has been busy working on an update that supports Windows 2008 R2, takes advantage of the new features in the...

Greetings folks! Hope you all had a good Valentine weekend last week! If you noticed, during your VMM Server installation, there is an option of allowing you to select a different account to run VMM Server service (VMMService) from the default computer account. “...

The Hyper-V Security Guide can help you elevate the security of virtualized Windows Server environments to meet your business-critical needs. This accelerator provides IT professionals like you with recommendations to address your key security concerns around server virtualization. The guide provides...

Greetings folks, Today, I've got a guest poster, Carmen Asher, one of my colleagues in VMM team. Carmen is the program manager responsible for SCVMM Configuration Analyzer 2008. Her post below provides you with all the information you need to know on: what VMMCA is all about, where to download...

Finally, the wait is over! Today, we have released System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 . For more information about the product, you can check out Rakesh's blog here , or the Window Virtualization team blog , or go to our technet home to download a trial version . To echo what Rakesh has...

If you have been using VMM for a while, you’ve probably figured out that we use various “refreshers” to pull data from the hosts and VMs that we manage. When deploying VMM in various sized environments, depending on the perf/scale requirements, you might need to tweak the refresher...

Working with SCVMM team, Hyper-V team and BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service) team have just released two important updates to support SCVMM scenarios. We highly recommend our customers to install these updates to your Hyper-V host environments. In fact, if your Hyper-V hosts do not have these...

Yes, today is a big day for Microsoft and a big day for the IT industry. We launched our full virtualization solution stack today at Meydenbauer Convention Center, Bellevue, WA. For the complete PR coverage, please check out this official MS news release . Now, customers who want a full end-to...

Since Windows 2008 Server Core does not come with Graphical UI, managing things on Core can be a bit challenging for folks who are used to the various administrator consoles. Luckily, here is a handy dandy command reference: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5FB255FF-72DA...

Since “ How to collect SCVMM traces ” and “ What to do when I have hosts in Needs Attention state? ” are published, we've seen requests on how to further debug WinRM/WMI issues that lead to VMM AddHosts failures. It’s particularly useful, when you run into a SCVMM...

We have seen some questions around DFS and VMM Library. Here is an attempt to explain how VMM would behave when deployed in such an environment and what customers should expect before doing so. First of all, what is DFS ? DFS stands for Distributed File System. The Microsoft DFS solution is composed...

We, at SCVMM team, have made our automation and integration stories super easy and fun through the powerful PowerShell interface. And the reason we chose PowerShell is that it is not only a powerful commandline tool for IT admins, it also provides strong API level integration capabilities and automation...

After I posted " What to do when my host is in Not Responding state? ", I received a few queries about the issues people ran into. I captured my notes when explaining some of the errors folks reported. I thought that it might be interesting to share them, in case you ran into a similar issue and you...

We have heard some feedback that some of our customers did not expect VMM to remove an ESX host when a "Remove" action was requested for an ESX host managed through VirtualCenter Server (VC) by VMM Server. So, I think that it might be worth to talk about how exactly this works and how you could do what...

More than often, deploying SCVMM server and managing VM hosts require coordination with your network admins. One of the frequently asked questions is "What ports should I ask my network guy to open for me in order to allow SCVMM server to talk to the hosts?". For a tightly controlled enterprise data...

If you are running SCVMM 2008 Beta and you are testing Hyper-V, you know that our Beta does not work with Hyper-V RC1 release . The patch for SCVMM Beta is now availble at Microsoft Connect Site for download. And please make sure to read the instruction for installation before installing. One thing...

Why Clustering? When IT organizations start moving their physical computing environment to a virtualized one to consolidate their servers (increase resource utilization), increase agility and adaptability of their workloads, reduce carbon footprint, or save on floor/rack space, one thing will quickly...

As you know when you install VMM 2008 server , the computer where you want to install VMM 2008 Server must be joined in a Windows 2003 or Windows 2008 AD domain. That's a hard requirement and the install will be blocked if it is not met. We hope all our customers have migrated their AD infrastructure...

What is PRO? PRO stands for Performance & Resource Optimization (in some of our Beta documentation, you may also see it referred to as "Physical Resource Optimization"), which: Is a powerful and valuable feature as the result of integration between SCOM (OpsMgr) and SCVMM ; Is a software...

Intelligent Placement feature is one of the unique functionalities that you will only find in Microsoft virtualization technology offerings. In VMM 2008, we continue expanding support of our intelligent placement functionality into those newly supported host and VM platforms, including VMware environment...