Source: http://community.brocade.com/community/brocadeblogs/data_center/blog/2012/04/25/simplicity-is-key-to-private-cloud-from-microsoft By Sue Hartford, Microsoft Global Alliance Manager at Brocade Simplicity was a key message in Brad Anderson’s...

Hello everyone, For all of those attending MMS 2012, hope you are having a great week! As promised here is the PowerShell session (FI-B322), script used during the session. #set script variables $vmNamePrefix = "COMBINEDDEMO" #set random number...

Excellent post by Robert Smith, PFE: Introduction Performance problems, especially as they may relate to the storage subsystem, can be quite difficult to troubleshoot. Enterprise storage technology has come a long way since the SCSI controller with...

IBM recently announced support for SC 2012 - VMM storage automation with the IBM XIV storage system using SMI-S. Microsoft® System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Storage Automation With the IBM XIV Storage System Gen3 This technical white...

SC 2012 VMM ships with a new service called the Storage Management Service which communicates with SMI-S based providers from vendors like NetApp, EMC, HP, and IBM. To help you troubleshoot problems, SCVMM include lots of storage related tracing information...

Great post from Jeffrey Snover Windows Server 8 is a cloud optimized OS. You’ve probably heard that phrase or similar comments a lot recently since we introduced Windows Server 8 last month (see Bill Laing’s blog post .) Let’s...

Today is the 4th and final day of the SNIA SMILab plugfest. One of the tests we use to validate SMI-S providers with SCVMM is to create 50 VMs in parallel using SAN based Rapid Provisioning. We do this in two modes: 50 all at the same time or 50 in batches...

SNIA SMI Lab kicked off the 4 th and final plugfest for 2011 this week. Microsoft is here along with several storage partners. Earlier today, we started testing VMM 2012 with a SMI-S based storage provider and we tried to allocate a LUN to a host group...

Some of these comments I have seen on FB and Twitter are just silly. For those that think "this is too much change"... did you even watch the key note? 1) The new Metro UI is an optimized experience for touch. You still have access to the traditional...

http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithcombs/archive/2011/09/09/system-center-virtual-machine-manager-vmm-2012-rc-now-available-for-download.aspx?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=hypervking Keith Combs - System Center Virtual Machine...

Hello everyone, This is Hector Linares, Program Manager for storage automation and with help from Erwien Saputra, UI developer on the Virtual Machine Manager team. We want to show you how to load VMM and vSphere cmdlets in the same PowerShell console...

Hey everyone, While preparing for my TechReady session, I reached out to a fellow dev on the team to help me craft a script to list all the VMs hosts on a specific SAN array. This is what he came back with. Thanks Erwien! Enjoy ($array = Get...

So I downloaded and installed the IE10 Platform Preview today and started to check out what's new. One of the tests Microsoft provides is called PaintBall. I ran this test using IE10 and noticed that the test displays "seconds" and "paitballs per minute...

Hi, I am Hector Linares, Senior Program Manager on the SCVMM team. This blog is an overview of the storage automation feature set in System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2012. The goal of this feature is to simplify and automate the discovery,...

Hey everyone, There is so much random stuff on the web these days. Some content is good for a laugh but then there is that content that leaves you scratching your head. Over at v_Critical, looks like their investigatory prowess has uncovered that something...

Hello everyone, So the VMM team finally announced BETA at MMS in March. One request we heard from you during the event is the need to visualize storage. VMM 2012 goes a long way to integrate storage automation into VMM using SMI-S based providers....

At TechEd Berlin I had the opportunity to present a VMM performance troubleshooting case study in Iftekhar Hussain's VIR311 session. You can hear the presentation http://bit.ly/aQ11bP starting at 50:10. Symptoms Reported On our production server...

This is from an internal question I replied to. This is a simply script given as a starting point that can be extended. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

The product team is still investigating this issue to come up with a viable solution. Its worth noting that this is a change in VMware's API behavior and not a directly VMM bug. While helping CSS root cause this issue, I found this forum post: ...

VMM P2V agent does not like the App-V virtual drive. I was able to repro the following issue using App-V 4.6 package. Analysis P2V agent installs correctly on source machine… but when it enumerates local volumes, an exception gets raised...

Mastering Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 by Michael Michael and Hector Linares is now available on Amazon.com. Order your copy today. http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Virtual-Machine-Manager-2008/dp/0470463325/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid...

Sysinterals recently released a free P2V. The comparison table below is for your reference to help highlight the difference in features and functionality between the two. The table is not meant to pin one tool against the other (i.e. who is better). The...

If you need to quickly recover a VM that has snapshots but no export file, you can use the commands in SCVMM R2 that enable rapid provisioning. In this case you are creating a new VM from the latest AVHD. NOTE: This approach does not recreate the...

Download the eval of SCVMM 2008 R2 RTM - http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenter/archive/2009/08/24/system-center-virtual-machine-manager-vmm-2008-r2-rtms.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd772269.aspx Includes KMS client setup keys. Useful when creating SCVMM Guest OS profiles. --snippet-- Manually Activate a KMS Client By default, KMS clients automatically attempt to activate themselves...