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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 Dynamic Memory enabling customers to better utilize...

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 is for you: The original version of VMM 2008 doesn...

I noticed this weekend that the directions for the SCVMM MPS Reports utility are incomplete. The only instructions that come with the utility are the ones on the download site that tell you how to download and run the tool: INSTALLING THE MPS REPORTING TOOL ================================= ...

Recently we have seen an issue where a few customers have been experiencing errors and long delays in adding a single-node cluster (i.e. a 1 node cluster) under management in Virtual Machine Manager. The error that is displayed in the console is Warning (13926) that all of the nodes could not be contacted...

In Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2, you remove a virtual hard disk (VHD) from a virtual machine. You expect that the .vhd file is detached from the virtual machine. However, the .vhd file is actually deleted on the Hyper-V server. Fortunately there's a hotfix available that addresses...

This article describes the Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 issues that are fixed in the hotfix rollup package that is dated November 10, 2009. List of issues that are fixed Issue 1 If a virtual machine that was created from a template fails during the customization phase, the...

We published two new knowledge base articles for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 last week.  The first discusses some steps that will help you troubleshoot a status of "Not Responding" that may appear in the Administrator Console.  The second is regarding an issue where...

Virtualizing business critical applications delivers significant benefits, including cost savings, enhanced business continuity, and an agile and efficient management solution. In this webcast, we focus on virtualizing Microsoft Exchange Server using Microsoft solutions, we discuss the benefits of using...

Being able to react to a changing server infrastructure is important for achieving a rationalized or dynamic IT infrastructure. This becomes a necessity with virtualization and the dynamic natures of workloads sharing an infrastructure. With Microsoft System Center Server Management Suite Datacenter...

In case you missed the announcement on Friday, there will be a new product category added to the WSUS server Products and Classifications dialog under the existing System Center Virtual Machine Manager family called Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2.  This new category will...

We had a new System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Knowledge Base article published last week.  This one discusses an issue where SAN migration may fail with error 1600 after upgrading to to System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2: KB975426 - Virtual machines cannot migrate from a Windows...

I was working with the System Center Virtual Machine Manager support team a few months back looking for a way that we could help reduce the amount of time it takes to resolve a case as well as reduce the number of incidents we get, and one of the things that was suggested at the time was a site explaining...

The Infrastructure Planning and Design team has released two updated virtualization guides: Windows Server Virtualization and System Center Virtual Machine Manager These guides, updated to reflect the features and functionalities of Windows Server® 2008 R2 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008...

When trying to add a System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 host in a remote domain configured with an external trust , you receive the following error: Error (2917) Virtual Machine Manager cannot process the request because an error occurred while authenticating server1.domain.com. Possible causes...

We had a new System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Knowledge Base article published last week.  This one discusses an issue where after upgrading to Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2, when you try to create a new virtual machine from a VHD file that is stored in either...

Here’s an issue I recently came across and since I didn’t see this documented anywhere I wanted to give you a heads up. Attempting to migrate (VMotion) a VM from one clustered host to another may result in the following error: Error: "A general system error occured: Failed waiting for data....

Just an FYI to mark your calendars today for our 60 minute presentation on what’s new in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2. This event is coming on Monday, September 07, 2009 at 11:00 AM Pacific Time and I have the details and a registration link below: ======== Language(s): English...

Just an FYI that at 10:00am Eastern time on Thursday, September 10, 2009, we’ll be hosting a webcast focused on Windows Power Shell, Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager: ======== Windows PowerShell is likely to become the automation tool of choice. In this webcast, we provide examples of...

Just an FYI that at 11:00am Pacific time on Thursday, July 23, 2009, we’ll be hosting a webcast exploring how Windows Server 2008 R2 saves IT costs by using Virtualization technologies to consolidate servers, improve availability, improve manageability of Hyper-V servers, and simplified deployment methods...

Just a heads up on a new blog post by Edwin Yuen, Senior Technical Product Manager at Microsoft's Integrated Virtualization team.  In this post he talks about another type of migration being added to System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2: Quick Storage Migration . I have a brief intro and...

As part of VMM 2008 R2 we have added a new feature called maintenance mode.  This feature enables users to easily evacuate the VMs from a host in order to perform host maintenance (for more information on VMM's maintenance mode check out Cheng's blog post here ).  Since the introduction of...