Symptom When using Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 to perform a Physical-to-Virtual conversion (P2V), the following error message appears during the Scan System phase. Error (2910) VMM does not have appropriate permissions to...

Moving to the cloud? Use this free toolkit to help customers build a private cloud infrastructure. System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0 is now available! The Microsoft System Center team is pleased to announce the launch...

Are you ready for Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX? I'm sure that everyone has heard of these new technologies being introduced in R2SP1 for Windows 2008. But do you now what they really mean? Here are some basic definitions and excellent blogs about each...

Just wanted to make everyone aware of a method to change the owner field of multiple VMs via Powershell, written by a colleague, Dave Guenthner. This is a great method to use if you need to change the owner field of a lot of VMs at once. Please visit...

Occasionally it is necessary to remove a host from management and then re-add it back in. This will result in the loss of any metadata associated with that particular host. Such metadata includes the custom properties, descriptions, tags, owner, cost...

As already published in several blog postings all over the web since December 2009, still some customers are asking for the Microsoft Support Lifecycle of WIndows XP SP2 and Windows 2000. To post again the information about this topic and to remind...

Occasionally, after a cluster failover, duplicate virtual machines may appear in the System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) Administrator Console: one with a status of Missing, the other with a different status. The missing virtual machines can be...

There are many updates available for SCVMM and the technologies it manages. Staying up to date can be difficult. There is a tool, the VMMCA , that will check the configuration and updates installed on the SCVMM Server and any Hosts specified and produce...

This article describes the performance metrics details that SCVMM collects and how to make sense of performance information that is displayed in SCVMM. VMM uses a periodically running performance refresher that gathers performance data from Hosts...

Just a quick note to say that once the latest rollup for VMM R2 has been applied, you will need to update the agent on each managed host. Until the agent has been updated, the host status displayed in the VMM console will be "Needs Attention". To update...

You may find yourself in the position of needing to move the SCVMM database from one server to another for various reasons. For instance, this situation can occur when moving from local to remote SQL or from a stand-alone SQL server to a SQL cluster....

Summary When performing a physical-to-virtual (P2V) conversion of a Windows 2000 SP4 source computer using System Center Virtual Machine Manager, it may fail during the Scan System phase of the P2V wizard with the following error: Unable to convert...

“ Why is my VM displaying an ‘Unsupported Cluster Configuration’ status ?” This is a question that I hear quite frequently. One of my colleagues, Jonathan Jordan has written an excellent blog about “Unsupported Cluster Configuration” that includes...

This is a question that I see from time to time either on forums or from customers. What is the domain functional level required for VMM? The answer is that VMM requires the domain functional level to be at least 2003 or higher. It is not supported...

Quite often we hear questions about the CPU type in SCVMM and what it really means. Well, one of my colleagues Mark Ghazai has written and well-illustrated article that discusses this in detail. This is definitely a post to share! http://blogs.technet...

Greetings, I am pleased to annouce the availability of Mastering Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2. The book is available for purchase on Amazon . Authors Michael Michael and Hector Linares both work on the SCVMM product team and many of you are already...

Symptoms In System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, if the Job Count exceeds the recommended upper limit then the Virtual Machine Manager service may consume a large amount of memory or exhibit high CPU utilization. Cause This issue may occur...

One of the top questions that I keep hearing from our customers is to explain the ‘over-committed’ status and why we sometimes display this status. An example of when this status might be displayed is when attempting to migrate a VM to a particular host...

Recently we have seen an issue where a few customers 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. The error that is displayed in the console is Warning...

I see many issues that could’ve been easily resolved if the VMMCA, or Virtual Machine Manager Configuration Analyzer had been ran prior to opening up a case with Microsoft CSS. The VMMCA has now been updated for VMM R2. Description The VMMCA is...

As we all know VMM uses BITS to transfer files during various operations. However from time to time you may find yourself needing to troubleshoot whether or not BITS is working correctly outside of VMM. This can be performed using the following method...

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: 09435 00009433 273.19396973 [5684] 1634.16A4:...

There are several publicly available hotfixes for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. Obviously they should be installed on the VMM server, but how about the Host computers? Are they applicable there as well? These are questions that I hear quite...

This is one of the most often asked questions on our support forums. And it can also be rather difficult to troubleshoot although if you follow the steps below you can systematically approach this issue and usually resolve it. While we're on the topic...

With a single command you can pull a list of all installed updates. Use this to compare patch levels on all systems so you can easily target those not meeting the bar. We start with simple commands, then build on these to create robust queries with...