May, 2009

Since releasing VMM R2 Beta, we’ve been working on an update to R2 and we’re readying a RC version that will ship in early June (VMM TAP customers will get an early preview later this month). In this context, I just wanted to give a headsup on some new...

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you have a bunch of virtual machines (VMs) where the OWNER value is set to UNKNOWN and you wanted to set a value owner without having to modify them one VM at a time?  If so there’s a PowerShell command...

"Where should I install VMM, on a physical server or inside a VM and then add that same physical server as a managed host?" This is a common question from our customers regarding the placement of VMM. The answer is that either is a fully supported...

When performing a physical-to-virtual (P2V) conversion of either a Windows 2000 SP4 server or any Windows based domain controller, the only supported method to do this is via an offline conversion. With offline P2V, the source computer restarts into the...

Adding a managed host in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 may fail with the following error messages: From the VMM admin console: Error (2927) A Hardware Management error has occurred trying to contact server %server. (Unknown error 0x8033809d...

On Wednesday, May 27 we’ll be hosting a 90 minute webcast on using Windows PowerShell with Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager so mark your calendars now.  If you’ve ever wanted to automate some of those common administrative tasks...

When you perform a physical to virtual (P2V) conversion using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, the P2V job may fail with the following error: Error (3154) An internal error has occurred trying to contact an agent on the servername server. ...

We had four new System Center Virtual Machine Manager Knowledge Base articles published last week.  The first two are more of the informational variety and the last two are more issue related.  Links and titles are below.   KB970921 - How...

Here’s an issue that we’ve seen a couple times already this week so I thought a heads up would be in order. If you’re getting “Element Not Found” errors when doing P2Vs and whatnot then this may be your solution. Issue: When using system Center Virtual...

We had one new System Center Virtual Machine Manager Knowledge Base article last week.  This one involves an issue where when using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 to perform any action involving file transfers across machines such as...

When performing a Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) conversion to a clustered host with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, it may fail with the following error: Error 2927 A Hardware Management error has occurred trying to contact server %servername...

Here’s another FYI that may not be System Center Virtual Machine Manager specific but it’s probably something you’ll want to be aware of anyway.  Over on the Virtualization Team Blog they recently announced the availability of the Microsoft Hyper...

When connecting to the SSP there may be errors such as ‘Syntax Error’ or ‘Object Unexpected.’ This may manifest as a popup with a script error, or you may simply see a small yellow warning icon in the lower left hand pane of the browser. In any event...