March, 2011

Our very own Hector Linares just posted a great article over on his blog talking about how to visualize your storage environment by using a NetApp PowerShell script that generates a Visio diagram with aggregate, volume, and LUN information.  This...

Ever since Windows Phone 7 was launched late last year there’s been a growing buzz surrounding Microsoft’s new phone OS, and with the recent announcement that the Windows Phone Marketplace had surpassed 10,000 apps in those 4-5 months and was growing...

So you got your hands on the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 beta and it looks cool and all but now what?  Time to start a pet shop.  But not just any pet shop, the .NET Pet Shop.  If you’re wanting to get a good taste of the...

Introduction Today I am pleased to announce the release to web of SCVMM 2012 MpsRpt Beta Tool that enables support for collecting trace logs in SCVMM 2012 Beta.  SCVMM 2012 MpsRpt Tool  was developed to provide a utility to manage, collect,...

Greetings, Today I am announcing the Release to Web of  an updated Virtual Machine Manager Configuration Analyzer (VMMCA) (version 1524) that adds support for SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1 and refines some troubleshooting for identifying the required hot fixes...

Hi, I am Hector Linares, Senior Program Manager on the SCVMM team. This blog is an overview of the storage automation feature set in System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2012. The goal of this feature is to simplify and automate the discovery,...

Hi, I am Alex Perez Balboa, System Development Engineer on the SCVMM team. Today I am going to provide an overview of some of the new networking concepts in SCVMM 2012 Beta. Logical Network Definitions A Logical Network is a way of representing networks...

Hi, I am Nitin Bhat, Program Manager on the SCVMM team.  Today I am going to provide you with an overview of how to integrate a load balancer into your SCVMM 2012 Beta environment for use in deploying VMM created  services. Introduction In SCVMM...

Hi, I’m Kerim Hanif and and I work as a Program Manager on the SCVMM team. Today I am going to talk about the High Available VMM server (HA VMM) feature in SCVMM 2012 Beta. During the evolution of the VMM server product from VMM 2007 to VMM 2008...

Hi, I’m Eric Winner, Principal Program Manager on the SCVMM team. Just last week at MMS 2011 we announced the public beta for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Beta . Today, I’m going to provide a high-level overview of the features and in the...

Just an FYI on a new System Center Virtual Machine Manager Knowledge Base article we published this morning: ===== Summary When you attach a GPT pass-through disk provided from SAS storage (Serial attached SCSI) to a highly available virtual machine by...

Easy as pie. Like taking candy from a baby. A walk in the park. Like shooting fish in a barrel. You hear those phrases all the time. But how often do you hear them applied to installing server applications in a datacenter? Sure, maybe you have some web...

Kenon Owens joined Symon Perriman on the Edge stage to talk about the new features and focus of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012, which as we mentioned a couple days ago is available in beta today. New to SCVMM 2012 is the concept of clouds...

On behalf of the SCVMM product team and I am proud to announce the availability of SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1 RTM. Support for new features of Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Dynamic Memory: Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V supports...

On behalf of the whole System Center Virtual Machine Manager product team it is with great pleasure we’re announcing the public release availability of SCVMM 2012 Beta . With this release you will be able to do: Fabric Management ...

Just a heads up on a new System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Knowledge Base article we published this morning.  This one talks about an issue where when doing a P2V it may hang at ~70% and the resulting VM boots to a stop 7B: Symptoms Attempting...

Just one week after Microsoft Management Summit 2011 (MMS), Microsoft Learning will be hosting an exclusive three-day Jump Start class specially tailored for VMware and Microsoft virtualization technology professionals. Registration for “ Microsoft Virtualization...

The Microsoft System Center team is pleased to announce an updated release of VMMSSP: System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0 SP1. This new version provides users the ability to import virtual machines created outside the portal...