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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. ...

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

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...

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...

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....