Get your STEK (not steak)!  The S ervice T emplate E xample K it is now available on the TechNet Gallery. This set of System Center 2012 SP1 – Virtual Machine Manager service templates provide the necessary base for which you can create deployable...

We wanted to let you know that two Test Lab Guides for VMM (System Center 2012 SP1) are now available. The first one walks you through installing a VMM server, using the evaluation VHD for VMM. The second one tells how to use VMM to deploy a pair of virtual...

In this blog, we begin to introduce multi-tenancy and isolation into the Logical Network design process we discussed in Part II, reviewing each of the Logical Networks we identified to determine whether or not you need to isolate groups of virtual machines...

Vladimir Petrosyan | Support Escalation Engineer Hey there again! This is Vladimir from the Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) team and today I have a really quick tip for you all that I found out myself recently working on an issue. The issue is basically...

One of our Microsoft MVPs, Alessandro Cardoso, wrote a great book on Virtual Machine Manager.  Check it out!  http://link.packtpub.com/POCsIQ

Kurt Scherer from the VMM Team here, I wanted to bring attention to some awesome work around Service Templates in VMM. Over on the Building Clouds Blog, there have been a few recent posts that you should definitely check out. First, Jim Britt has released...

In Part I, we looked at how Logical Networks fit into a Virtualized Network solution. In Part II, which is split over a number of different posts, we focus our attention on Logical Network design and architecture. As with all of the previous posts , it...

Posted on behalf of Carmen Summers Greetings All, This is Carmen Summers and I lead System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management Sustained Engineering.  I wanted to take the time to announce we are making an addition to System Center 2012 SP1 Update...

This is a post that I just put up on the System Center blog, but I also wanted to post it here for better visibility because one of the topics this week is about automating Hyper-V administration using PowerShell.  While you can do lots of great...

Update Rollup 2 for Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is now available and includes the following updates for App Controller: Issue 1: You cannot change the virtual machine network of deployed virtual machines. Issue 2: The network connection...

Microsoft’s own Cheng Wei (Senior Program Manager) posted a great article on Refreshers in VMM 2012 SP1 back during the beta but everything he talks about is still relevant for the released version of Service Pack 1 today. If you haven’t seen this post...

Update Rollup 5 for System Center 2012 is now available for download. It includes a variety of System Center fixes, including one for an issue in VMM 2012 where a host that is put into maintenance mode does not load-balance virtual machines in a cluster...

Just a quick note on a new Knowledge Base article we just published on VMM 2012. This article discusses an issue where deploying a virtual machine fails with error 2912 and “Forbidden (403) (0x80190193)”. See the KB article below for details: KB2830506...

System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM 2012) does not provide a way to install and configure a SQL Analysis server using service templates, however there’s still a way to accomplish this goal. See the KB article below for details: KB2830465 ...

Who doesn’t love IT wallpaper?  Network diagrams, data model diagrams, Active Directory replication topology diagrams, server room floorplans – they can turn a bland cubical or office wall into a decorative piece of IT art for all the other IT geeks...

Chuck Timon | Senior Support Escalation Engineer | Microsoft CTS Management and Security Division One of the more exciting features in Windows Server 2012 is the ability to support Hyper-V virtual machine data files on SMBv3 file shares hosted on a Windows...

Radhika Gupta | Software Development Engineer | Microsoft In Windows Server 2012, Hyper-V added the capability to store virtual machine (VM) resources on network shares hosted on NAS devices as an alternative to SAN remote storage. This improved Hyper...

We just published a new KB article that talks about an issue where In the Virtual Machine Manager admin console, VMs report Unsupported Cluster Configuration and the job view error is: Error 23772 One or more available cluster volumes associated with...

We just published a new KB article that discusses an issue where when using System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) to migrate a virtual machine between two standalone hosts, the operation fails with: “The host does not have access to sufficient...

Hi everyone, Alvin Morales here. If you are using System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager Service Pack 1 (VMM) to manage storage and assign LUNS, there is a collection of updates that may improve this functionality. These updates are for Windows Server...

I’m Hilton Lange, a Software Development Engineer on the VMM team. I want to conclude my series of placement blogs by talking about the custom rules that you can configure on your VMM server to give you more control over where your VMs are deployed. In...

Hi, Richard Mascarenhas here and I wanted to mention an issue you might run into when adding a Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Core computer to System Center Virtual 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM). When adding a Core computer you may see the following...

Hi everyone, Yuvraj Attarde here and today I ‘d like to pass along a trip on how to easily assign an IP address using PowerShell during deployments in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager. Let’s say for example that you have the requirement to assign...

We just published a new KB article that discusses a specific scenario where network settings for a VM may be lost when a Storage Migration is performed in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager. You can find the complete article here: KB2820145 -...

The IT Pro Evangelism team, Microsoft Learning and the Microsoft Virtual Academy are pleased to announce the next Jump Start course Microsoft Tools for VMware Integration & Migration on Thursday, March 14 th from 8am – 12pm PST .  This is a live...