April, 2009

Have you ever run into a situation where a failed P2V or other job leaves you with a VM you cannot delete? I have and it usually ends up looking something like this: Recently we’ve had a couple of cases come in where a VM was stuck in the Creating...

My buddy Jonathan Jordan recently came across an interesting issue and wrote up a great solution, and since he’s out today I thought I’d take the liberty of posting it. If you ever find yourself in a position where you tried to remove a VM but it ended...

Everywhere you look these days it’s all about blogs.  Blogs here, blogs there, they’re all over the place.  So have you ever wondered how many different blogs Microsoft hosts? Let me tell, you don’t want to know.  Let’s just say it’s thousands...

We’ve run into a couple folks who are having trouble finding KB961983 - Description of the hotfix rollup package for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008: April 14th, 2009 so if this applies to you then here’s a tip on how to find it. What you need...

We had one new System Center Virtual Machine Manager Knowledge Base article published last week.  This one is titled Description of the hotfix rollup package for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008: April 14th, 2009   and it details each...

An article has been posted on blogs.technet.com/jonjor that simplifies what Updates and Hotfixes should be installed on SCVMM servers. Essentially there are two Microsoft KB's to follow and you're done. Take a look! Hotfix Rollup Released for SCVMM...

Here’s an issue that might bite you if you’re not mindful of it.  I ran across this a few days ago so I thought it would be worth mentioning here just in case: ======== Issue: When attempting to create a new virtual machine from a template in System...

Just a quick FYI that Robert Larson published a cool step-by-step on installing and configuring the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Self-Service Portal over at VirtualizationAdmin.com .  So who is Robert Larson?  He’s the co-author...

We had two new System Center Virtual Machine Manager Knowledge Base articles published last week.  The first is an issue where a P2V conversion fails with Error 2910 (0x80070005) Access Denied, and the second is a step-by-step on how to collect traces...

We had two new System Center Virtual Machine Manager Knowledge Base articles published last week. The first is on an issue where when trying to migrate a VM you get an error saying the processor is not compatible, and the second is on a P2V conversion...

The Hyper-V Security Guide provides IT professionals with guidance, instructions, and recommendations to address key security concerns about server virtualization. The Hyper-V Security Guide can help you elevate the security of virtualized Windows Server...