Excellent post from Edwin Yuen on Quick Storage Migration (QSM): http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2009/06/25/system-center-virtual-machine-manager-2008-r2-quick-storage-migration.aspx

Today the SCVMM team released SCVMM 2008 R2 Release Candidate. You can read all about it here. http://blogs.technet.com/scvmm/archive/2009/06/06/scvmm-2008-r2-rc-public-release-available-now.aspx Happy Virtualizing!

Many customers ask how they can replicate VMM templates to other Library servers (within a single VMM instance). A template is really a collection of properties stored in the database and pointers to VHDs stored on the Library server (exposed through...

VMM2008 will block P2V on source machines with an SSL cert registered on 443. To change the default port used by VMM, please follow these precise steps. 1. Go to Regedit->HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager Server...

When you perform a V2V from a VMware host and I get the following error: Error (12709) The operation on did not complete successfully because of the error: Server sent disconnect message: type 2 (protocol error : too many authentication failures for...

Check out the following document for a set of public PIDs that you can use in the OS profile: http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/5/f/45fb677a-c215-442e-afd0-419e08b6c5d1/Volume%20Activation%202.0%20Deployment%20Guide.doc KMS Client Setup Keys...

Please continue reading more on Rakesh's blog: http://blogs.technet.com/rakeshm/archive/2008/10/21/scvmm-2008-is-released.aspx

VMM uses Template objects to deploy new VMs from templates stored in the Library. To automate the provisioning of new VMs from templates, VMM can pass the answer file to Windows during sysprep customization/specialization (this is why you create Guest...

VMM 2008 automates the uninstall of Virtual Server VM Additions (version 13.813+) and installation Hyper-V Integration Components with no user interaction. Two ways to take advantage of this feature - 1) If you have a VM that was running under Virtual...

When creating a new VM from scratch with a blank VHD or a VHD with a non-Windows OS , you will get the warning (VMM does peak inside the VHD as part of the creation process to determine this). This warning can be ignored. To have the VM autostart after...

VMM has a new cmdlet to get the next available MAC from the static pool: New-PhysicalAddress. When creating a VM, the calling script can first see the next MAC that available in the static pool and then commit it as part of the provisioning process. ...