February, 2010

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....

This is an issue that we originally talked about a while back but we're still seeing some cases come in so I thought it would be worth another mention just in case. When using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 to perform any action involving...

You may have noticed that when you go to set custom host reserve properties in a host group these setting do not automatically propagate down to the individual hosts with those groups: When you set the properties for “Host Reserves” at the Host Group...

Here in product support our job is not only to fix problems when they happen but to help prevent those problems from happening in the first place.  There are a lot of ways we approach that aspect of our job but one of the top ways we do this is simply...

Here's another one that's not necessarily SCVMM specific but should come in handy if you ever have to debug any of your Hyper-V VMs: The Hyper-V VM State to Memory Dump Converter Hyper-V(tm) VM State to Memory Dump Converter ( vm2dmp ) is a command-line...

Consider the following scenario: You run Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2. You try to deploy a newly created virtual machine to an instance of VMware ESX Server 3.0 Host. VMware ESX Server 3.0 Host is running on the x64-based version...

Have you ever tried managing a Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V host using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (the RTM version, not the R2 version) but kept running into issues that prevented it from working properly?  If so then today's tip...