February, 2013

In this blog, the second in our series, we will take a closer look at Logical Networks and review some of the key considerations, best practice recommendations and guidance for designing, implementing and managing this component of your Virtualized Network...

I’m Hilton Lange, Software Development Engineer on the VMM team, and I’d love to share with you my personal favorite feature in VMM 2012.  We’ve introduced the ability to constantly monitor and rebalance load on your clusters by using “Dynamic Optimization...

I’m Hilton Lange, Software Development Engineer in the VMM 2012 team. I’d like to continue my previous article about Dynamic Optimization (DO) by telling you about its closely related sister feature, Power Optimization (PO).  DO allows you to automatically...

Hi Everyone, this is Alvin Morales, Senior Support Escalation Engineer for System Center and I wanted to take a minute to talk about a potential issue with virtual switches in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager SP1. Recently I’ve come...

Hi, Donovan Vanhaltren here with a tip on an issue you might see when migrating VMs from Windows Server 2008 R2 in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager Service Pack 1.  When trying to migrate virtual machines created on Windows Server 2008R2...

We just published a new KB article that talks about an issue where performing a storage migration from one LUN to another within a cluster in VMM 2012, the job fails at 99% with error “ 12711 The cluster resource could not be found (0x138F)”. You can...

We just published a new KB article that talks about an issue where the VMM service crashes when a virtual machine is refreshed. The error is "Error converting data type int to smallint” and it can occur if minimum Dynamic memory is set to a value...

We just published a new KB article that talks about an issue where adding hosts to System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager Service Pack 1 fails with the following error: Agent installation failed copying C:\Program Files\Microsoft System Center...