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hi everyone, it has become apparent that VMM 2008 R2 has switch port leaks when performing checkpointing operations through VMM (either through the PowerShell interface, through Visual Studio Lab Manager, through the self-service portal, or through the VMM Administrator Console) This is a known issue...

hi everyone, Maha Ibrahim from the VMM team prepared this great blog entry for how to deploy the Pet Shop 3-tier Application as a Service using VMM 2012 beta. I have attached this as a word document at the bottom of this post as well. Please follow all the steps in this guide to successfully deploy...

hi everyone, i was in Las Vegas this week at the Microsoft Management Summit 2011, where we announced both the availability of VMM 2008 R2 SP1 RTM as well as the beta of VMM 2012. This was a great week showcasing the hard work of the VMM team. I encourage you to download both releases and learn more...

hi everyone, i wanted to let you know I will be attending Tech-Ed Europe in Berlin from 8 - 12 of November. If any of you plan to attend, stop by the Virtual Machine Manager booth to chat. cheers.

if you are managing a Windows 2000 Server Virtual Machine with Hyper-V, you might notice that VMM does not recognize this operating system in the Administrator Console. Even if you manually change the OS name in the Virtual Machine properties, VMM will make it empty on the next refresh of the VM. ...

it has come to our attention that there are some customer complaints with regards to missing virtual machines in the administrator console after a cluster failover. Since it is not easy to remove those VMs from the VMM administrator console, Gokcen from our team wrote a script that will allow you to...

hi everyone, this week i am going to post a new set of PowerShell scripts that will allow you to save the Virtual Machine metadata in VMM. The saved metadata can be applied later on in the event that you add and remove the host from VMM management. A scenario where this issue comes up is when something...

I am sure many of you have heard of the recent support statements from Windows Hyper-V with regards to Red Hat. (see http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2010/02/23/red-hat-enterprise-linux-and-hyper-v.aspx for more details). We have now posted a KB article that shows you how to enable...

Chetan from my team volunteered to write a two part blog post about how VMM gathers the performance information it shows on VM. This article describes the details around the performance metrics that VMM collects and how to make sense of perf information that is displayed in VMM. VMM uses a periodically...

hi everyone, i am just writing to let you know that I will be MMS 2010 ( http://www.mms-2010.com/public/home.aspx ) in Las Vegas next month. If any of you plan on attending, you will likely find me near the VMM booth. If you are super excited to be using VMM, stop by and you might also score a...

If you have enabled the PRO integration with operations manager in your VMM environment, then this blog post might be for you. If your VMM Administrator Console is taking too long to load and the memory footprint of the vmmadmin.exe is too large (i.e. the vmmadmin.exe is taking up too much RAM), then...

if you are experiencing a slow offline P2V time due to a network that has 100mb full duplex enabled on the switch end, here is the process you can follow to make the data transfer a lot faster. This process will modify the WIM image used for P2V and modify the type of networking drivers being used, The...

if you are like me and you like to try software first before you buy them, then the VMM 2008 R2 VHD is one of the fastest and easiest methods of deploying VMM in your virtualized environment. This VHD contains the evaluation version of VMM. You can find the VHD and instructions for deploying it here...

hey everyone, I have some great news. The FIRST System Center Virtual Machine Manager book is now available at major book retailers like Amazon.com. This book was primarily written by Hector Linares and myself, with Cheng Wei being a contributing author. The book covers VMM 2008 R2 and all its new...

A few folks have been experiencing errors and long delays in adding a single-node (i.e. a 1 node cluster) cluster under management in Virtual Machine Manager. This issue stems from the fact that VMM has an overcommitted property for each cluster. By default, a single-node cluster will always be overcommitted...

Today, in VMM, you can open the Administrator Console and click on the Jobs view to see all the Jobs in VMM. When you select an individual job, you can click on the "Change Tracking" tab and view any changes that were recorded in VMM as part of this job. In this post, i will show you how to do this...

hey guys, If you are wondering when VMM 2008 R2 will release, this latest blog post by Rakesh will give you the inside track. http://blogs.technet.com/rakeshm/archive/2009/07/13/scvmm-2008-r2-release-date-information.aspx cheers.

In line with the Rapid Provisioning feature that i mentioned in my previous blog post, Vishwa, a PM from our team, just posted a comprehensive list of new features of VMM 2008 R2. Check it out here: http://blogs.technet.com/scvmm/archive/2009/05/11/scvmm-r2-rc-features.aspx

At MMS 2009, our team announced a new feature of VMM 2008 R2 called Rapid Provisioning. This feature is not available in VMM 2008 R2 beta, but it will be available in the upcoming release candidate and in the RTM version. This feature was implemented in response to customers requests. In VMM 2008...

We have seen a lot of cases of customers trying to view the Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal (SSP) UI from a computer running Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7. If the portal is running VMM 2008, it is likely that you can't view the connections to a Virtual Machine and you are getting error...

The much anticipated VMM 2008 R2 beta is now released. You can go to http://connect.microsoft.com/ and sign up for the beta. Click on "Connection Directory" and sort by the newest beta programs or search for "System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Beta" What's New in VMM 2008 R2 Beta System...

It has come to our attention that trying to add a computer with more than 16 processors (for example a quad six-core machine with 24 processors) is crashing the VMM server with the following exception: System.InvalidOperationException: Nullable object must have a value. at System.Nullable`1.get_Value...

If your VMM implementation has over 150 hosts, we strongly recommended that you enable server-optimized garbage collector (GC) on the VMM server instead of the default workstation garbage collector. This can significantly reduce the CPU utilization on the VMM server and improve your performance for parallel...

We have been getting a lot of excitement and questions about the reports for the VMM 2008 MP. With this blog post we can announce that this update is ready and available for download today. This update to the MP includes updated reports for all platforms that we manage (VS, Hyper-V, and VMware...

we have several customers that tried to add a Windows Server 2008 R2 as a host in VMM 2008. Our team has not validated that R2 will work with VMM 2008 and it is officially not supported. However, for the few of you that tried to add a Windows Server 2008 R2 Core edition as a host in VMM and failed...