April, 2011

Here’s a heads up on another interesting article I found over in the TechNet Wiki. This one is by Microsoft Partner Kristian Nese and it talks about all the cool new features that are part of the library in SCVMM 2012: With all the new features in System...

Hi everyone, I just wanted to give you a quick heads up on a cool resource for SCVMM 2012 that a colleague turned me on to today.  Our friends over on the Hyper-V.Nu blog have been busy at work putting the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012...

Microsoft Learning hosted another new and exclusive Jump Start virtual training event – Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals and we are thrilled to announce availability of the HD-quality video recordings – FREE – on TechNet Edge and soon...

OS Deployment of Hyper-V through SCVMM 2012 makes it very easy to turn bare metal machines into VM Hosts. The process deploys the OS and creates a consistent configuration to provide a layer of uniformity to your hosts even though there can be significant...

Microsoft SCVMM 2012 can manage Microsoft Server Application Virtualization (Server App-V) packages. In this blog post, we are going to explain what a Server App-V package means and how we can create Server App-V packages with Microsoft Server Application...

Here’s a heads up on another interesting article I found over in the TechNet Wiki.  This one is by Microsoft Partner Kristian Nese and it talks about Dynamic Optimization and Power Optimization in SCVMM 2012: VMM brought us a lot of new stuff. We...

Hi Everyone, this is Nitin Bhat and Hector Linares from the fabric management team in SCVMM. While talking with TAP customers we got some great questions that we wanted to share with you all. ·Q: How does the SMI-S connection occur between VMM2012 and...

Operations Manager Integration and Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) Background System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 R2 uses System Center Operations Manager 2007 to monitor the health and availability of the virtual machines and...

Just a quick FYI on another interesting article by Leandro Carvalho that showed up in the TechNet Wiki yesterday.  This one discusses how to use VM Templates in SCVMM 2012 to deploy a server incredibly quickly and easily: Automation! This is a word...

Here’s another interesting article that showed up in the TechNet Wiki yesterday, published by Microsoft Partner and MVP Leandro E. Carvalho. This one discusses how to use the Dynamic Optimization feature in SCVMM 2012 to save energy and save money: System...

Last week I posted a link to an article written by Microsoft Partner and MVP Leandro E. Carvalho that talked about building your own private cloud using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 and now he’s back at it with part 2.  In this installment...

Greetings Everyone, I am Greg Cusanza, Program Manager on the SCVMM team.  Today I am going to blog about one of the interesting new features of VMM 2012, which  is the ability to control the power state of a host. We use both in-band methods...

The Dutch Hyper-V Community was founded in 2008 by Jaap Wesselius during one of the first Hyper-V deployments in The Netherlands. Jaap was quickly accompanied by Hans Vredevoort. Both Jaap and Hans are awarded with the MVP award. Jaap has been an Exchange...

Here’s another interesting article that showed up in the TechNet Wiki yesterday, published by Microsoft Partner and MVP Leandro E. Carvalho.  This one discusses how to manage the size of your VirtualManagerDB_log: Ok, you have had your SCVMM server...

I was recently at MMS where I had sessions related to fabric management (network and Storage) and Services modeling within SCVMM 2012. One of the questions we were asked in the birds of the feather session was around best practices related to networking...

Here’s another article written by Microsoft MVP Leandro E. Carvalho that’s over in the TechNet Wiki. This one walks you through some of the features and requirements of SCVMM 2012: With the constant adoption of new virtualization solutions and resources...

The new articles just keeping flying into the TechNet Wiki , and this time it’s one about using SCVMM 2012 to create your own private cloud.  This article written by Microsoft MVP Leandro E. Carvalho who’s been on quite a roll lately with a lot of...

VMM 2008 R2 SP1 has been out for just over a week now and we’ve been very pleased with the excitement it’s been generating in the user community.  One question that’s come up a lot in the last few days is which download package to use and if there...