There are situations, especially when running your virtual infrastructure on Storage Area Networks (SANs), that you are unable to effectively delete a virtual machine.  There are many reasons why your VM is no longer needed such as you’ve moved to...

In various situations, SCVMM might store data that is “stale” or “tomb-stoned” as I outlined in an earlier blog post .  There are situations where objects re-appear after you’ve followed my instructions of how to delete them in SQL Management Studio...

Recently, I had the unfortunate task of moving the System Center VMM Database off of a SQL cluster over to a stand-alone version of SQL 2008 SP1.  This sounds extremely simple though it is unfortunate that it isn’t quite as simple as it possibly...

For those who joined myself and Brian Copps at our TechEd 2010 presentation, you learned in-depth how we run one of the largest set of Corporate online services such as www.microsoft.com , update.microsoft.com , and technet/msdn.microsoft.com using the...