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...

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...

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...

Greetings, Today I am announcing the Release to Web of System Center Virtual Machine Manager Configuration Analyzer (VMMCA) that adds support for SCVMM 2008 and 2008 R2 and also adds additional troubleshooting rules. Overview Customers...

Good Morning, I am pleased to announce the Release to Web availability of the updated SCVMM 2008 and 2008 R2 MpsReports. Overview The SCVMM 2008 and 2008 R2 Microsoft Product Support Reports helps Support Professionals, ITPros and System...

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...

We had a new System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Knowledge Base article published last week.  This one discusses an issue where a read only domain controller (RODC) can only be used as a Host if it was already a Host prior to being promoted...

While using a Read Only Domain Controller as a Host is possible, it is not a best practice. Nonetheless, a few customers are running into issues when attempted. One of our SCVMM engineers researched the issue and has developed the method below that addresses...

Greetings, I am delighted to announce the availability of the following document which provides you with details on the steps required to create a simple PRO-enabled management pack. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID...

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...

The System Center Virtual Machine Manager team is pleased to annouce the release to manufacturing of SCVMM 2008 R2. To help you upgrade your existing SCVMM 2008 environment Kerim Hanif, Program Manager SCVMM, has posted a helpful blog for upgrading. ...

When trying to install the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Administrator Console, it may fail during the Prerequisites Check with the following error message: To continue, you must complete all prerequisites. Resolve all error conditions...

Microsoft Press offers complimentary book “Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions“. This guide will teach you about the benefits of the latest virtualization technologies and how to plan, implement, and manage virtual infrastructure solutions...

Over the past few months I have been seeing a couple of these cases come by where when you try to add a host to System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 it fails with the following message: Error (2912) An internal error has occurred trying to contact...

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...

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...

When Microsoft Hyper-V Server is started, it automatically tries to mount all the volumes that are connected to the server. These volumes include volumes on local disks and Storage Area Network (SAN) logical unit numbers (LUNs). The SAN policy in Microsoft...

Here’s a great post on how to fix an ‘Unsupported Cluster Configuration’ status when it’s caused by a configuration issue with the virtual networks.  I found this one when I was looking through some of various System Center Virtual Machine Manager...

When adding a Windows Server 2008 / EMC Symmetrix Cluster (Geo-cluster) as a host to SCVMM 2008, you may get the following error: Code: 1612 Problem: The connection to the Virtual Machine Manager server localhost was lost. Action: 1...

I had an interesting case the other day and since I didn’t see it documented anywhere I thought I’d mention it here in case anyone else runs into it. What can happen is that when trying to copy a template to a Hyper-V host in SCVMM 2008 the process may...

Re-posted from Rakeshm’s VM Management Blog… Link here . I just wanted to clarify (incorrect) rumors/speculation about the release date for SCVMM 2008 R2. There is a lot of built up excitement for this release and we've added many features , none more...

I was looking around Facebook the other day and thought “Wow, there sure are a lot of companies out here, sharing information and whatnot” and then I thought hey, why not me too.  After all, if there’s another avenue that can be opened up that might...

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...

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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...