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...

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...

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...

Virtual Machine Manager – Service Pack 1 Beta http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34779 Orchestrator – Service Pack 1 Beta http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34778 System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 Beta http:/...

Hi, I am Alex Perez Balboa, System Development Engineer on the SCVMM team. Today I am going to provide an overview of some of the new networking concepts in SCVMM 2012 Beta. Logical Network Definitions A Logical Network is a way of representing networks...

Hi, I am Nitin Bhat, Program Manager on the SCVMM team. Today I am going to provide you with sample PowerShell scripts to leverage our investments made for networking and storage. These scripts would execute against the SCVMM 2012 Beta builds. The best...

Hi, I am Hilton Lange, SDE on the Virtual Machine Manager team.  Today I want to share with you this blog on how cluster reserve calculations were entirely rewritten in VMM 2012.  This rewrite has dramatically reduced the overly conservative...

Greetings, There are many occasions on the public forums where a customer is struggling with a commonly known issue on VMM 2008 RTM. For those commonly known issues we have bundled those up into a tool called the Virtual Machine Management Configuration...

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Internally and externally to Microsoft I have seen a number of issues around how to enabling full VMware Management using SCVMM. Most of the time people don’t understand that the reason they can’t create a VMware VM or migrate a VM from VMware environment...

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you have a bunch of virtual machines (VMs) where the OWNER value is set to UNKNOWN and you wanted to set a value owner without having to modify them one VM at a time?  If so there’s a PowerShell command...

"Where should I install VMM, on a physical server or inside a VM and then add that same physical server as a managed host?" This is a common question from our customers regarding the placement of VMM. The answer is that either is a fully supported...

When performing a physical-to-virtual (P2V) conversion of either a Windows 2000 SP4 server or any Windows based domain controller, the only supported method to do this is via an offline conversion. With offline P2V, the source computer restarts into the...

This is one of the most often asked questions on our support forums. And it can also be rather difficult to troubleshoot although if you follow the steps below you can systematically approach this issue and usually resolve it. While we're on the topic...

When migrating from SCVMM 2008 Beta to the final release bits (RTM), a utility is required in order to complete the process successfully. This tool is no longer posted on the Microsoft 'Connect' site, but is still available by request from Microsoft Support...

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Anyone ever had problems with the admin console crashing? How about the crash happening each time the admin console refreshes? Or perhaps troubleshooting has identified that the problem only occurs when a particular host is refreshed? Ever wonder why...

Yea, I know this isn’t Virtual Machine Manager specific but it’s something we run into every now and then that I thought could use a little publicity.  If you ever get the error “The Hypervisor is not running” when you try to launch a VM then Felipe...

We should be rolling out a KB article on this pretty soon (if it's not already) but I figured a heads up here would be a good idea too. Symptoms The vmmservice may crash while attempting to add a VMware vCenter environment that uses distributed switches...

We often hear questions either on the internal alias or from customers about SCVMM and Domain Controllers so here are a few of the common scenarios and questions and the real world answers: Scenario #1 VMM server is in Domain_A and there is a member...

Attempting to login to the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM) self-service portal may fail with the following error message in the browser: Could not load file or assembly ‘TraceWrapper, Version=1 .0.523.0, Culture=neutral, PubhcKeyToken...

If you are adding a new node to an existing cluster that is being managed by System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM), or if you had to rebuild a node of a cluster and need to add it back, here are the steps that are required: First, here is...

OS Deployment of Hyper-V through SCVMM 2012 makes it very easy to turn bare metal machines into VM Hosts. The process deploys the OS and creates a consistent configuration to provide a layer of uniformity to your hosts even though there can be significant...

Microsoft Learning hosted another new and exclusive Jump Start virtual training event – Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals and we are thrilled to announce availability of the HD-quality video recordings – FREE – on TechNet Edge and soon...

Hi Cluster Fans, The System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Beta (SCVMM 2012) has just been released and there are some great high-availability and clustering features coming to simplify datacenter management. VMM Server High-Availability Virtual...