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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 everyone, Mark Stanfill here with a quick heads-up on a VMM setup issue I ran into the other day. I was talking with a customer who was trying to install System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 but the setup process was crashing with a call stack...

We just published a new KB article about an issue where you receive error 26147 when you try to unregister a LUN that contained a VM and checkpoints that have been deleted. You can find the article here: KB2804293 - Error 26147 while unregistering a LUN...

One of the challenges with creating a completely deployable service in the past has been the lack of ability to sysprep SQL Server.  That was addressed with SQL Server 2012 so that you could sysprep a SQL Server cleanly and include a sysprep’d VM...

With System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM 2012) SP1, we now allow multiple migrations to occur and we can specify the maximum number of concurrent migration jobs in the properties of the host. What this means is that if we set the migration...

Here’s a new KB article we published today. This one talks about an issue where you can get error 2606 when starting a new job in VMM 2012. Error 2606 can occur when a new job is started if there’s another job that already has locks on the db. It’s pretty...

Here’s a new KB article we published today on App Controller. This one describes an issue where attempting to install App Controller to a remote SQL server it fails if the name of the SQL server starts with a number or you specified the IP address of...

Here’s a new KB article we published today. This one walks you through the steps necessary to enable debug logging and collect an ETL trace in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager. This probably isn’t something you’d ever want to do on your own...

We’ve posted a few KB articles for System Center 2012 SP1 and since they were timed to go out with the release of the SP1 bits I didn’t want to dedicate a separate post for each. Instead I’ve listed them here just so you’ll be aware of what they are....

This morning we announced the general availability of System Center 2012 SP1.   You can read more about the release on the System Center blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/systemcenter/archive/2013/01/15/system-center-2012-sp1-is-generally-available...

Welcome to the New Year and to a series of blog postings that will cover how to define, configure and manage Virtual Networks in VMM 2012 SP1. Over the next few months, we plan to cover the following topics using the initial blog “getting started with...

Here’s a recent KB about an issue where attempting to migrate a VM with an attached shared ISO using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 or System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager fails with: Virtualization platform on host Host_Name.domain...

We’ve been getting a couple support calls regarding this issue so you may want to give this article a quick read. If attempts to manage Hyper-V hosts in VMM fail then check and see if Windows Management Framework (WMF) 3.0 ( KB2506143 ) is installed on...

Alvin Morales here again, and today I wanted to talk briefly about an issue that I ran across in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM 2012) Service Pack 1 but is probably applicable to non-SP1 (RTM) VMM 2012 as well. The issue you can run into...