I just wanted to let you know about a new Knowledge Base article we published today. You’ll definitely want to bookmark this one as it tells you how to troubleshoot a couple of the more common issues we see when adding a Hyper-V host in SCVMM 2008 or...

This rollup includes updates for App Controller, Data Protection Manager (DPM), Operations Manager (OpsMgr), Orchestrator, Service Manager (SCSM) and Virtual Machine Manager (VMM). Download links, installation instructions and the list of issues fixed...

VMM 2012 introduces the concept of services: it allows defining service templates (blueprints of user applications), deploying services from service templates (creating VMs and applications), and servicing services with updated service templates (updating...

We have been getting a lot of excitement and questions about the reports for the VMM 2008 MP. With this blog post we can announce that this update is ready and available for download today. This update to the MP includes updated reports for all...

Our very own Jonathan Jordan has another great post on his blog about PowerShell and SCVMM.  If you happened to miss it I have an intro and link below: PowerShell. You keep meaning to learn it. You just need a push. Maybe a CubeNote (Cheat Sheet...

Adding a managed host in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 may fail with the following error messages: From the VMM admin console: Error (2927) A Hardware Management error has occurred trying to contact server %server. (Unknown error 0x8033809d...

I just wanted to let you know about a new Knowledge Base article we published this morning. This one talks about an issue where the Virtual Machine Manager Service can crash with VMs running Linux Integration Components v3.1 for Hyper-V: ===== Symptoms...

This is an issue that we originally talked about a while back but we're still seeing some cases come in so I thought it would be worth another mention just in case. When using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 to perform any action involving...

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:/...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one lists all of the recommended hotfixes for Microsoft System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager. Please note that the Virtual Machine Manager Configuration Analyzer (VMMCA) is currently being update...

We've had a couple of questions around support by Virtual Machine Manager for Windows Server 2012 so I wanted to post a quick update to let you all know where to find the information you’re looking for. For full information on what's supported for each...

Here's an issue that was sent to me by Michelle Foley, one of our top SCVMM and App-V Support Escalation Engineers.  She didn't see this officially documented anywhere so here you go: ======== Issue: An installation of SCVMM 2008 may fail after the...

We’d like to take a minute to share with you the additions to reporting capabilities and the new reports that are available as part of VMM in System Center 2012 and how to access these reports in your installations. First, you need to establish the connection...

SCVMM can use an existing virtual machine as a source for future virtual machines. The source in this case can reside on a virtual machine host or on the library server. Creating a virtual machine from a virtual machine is referred to as cloning although...

When you perform a physical to virtual (P2V) conversion using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, the P2V job may fail with the following error: Error (3154) An internal error has occurred trying to contact an agent on the servername server. ...

The Infrastructure Planning and Design team is pleased to announce that the System Center 2012 - Virtual Machine Manager guide is now available for download. Download the guide now: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=245473 This guide outlines the...

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...

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...

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...

Here's another KB we published this morning.  This one talks about an issue where doing a host refresh in the SCVMM 2008 admin console generates error 2912 with 0x800700A4: ===== Symptoms In the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM)...

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...

Hi everyone, Konstantin Zoryn here, and today I’d like to talk about importing and exporting Templates in SCVMM 2012.  System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 (VMM 2012) allows creating service and virtual machine templates and there are many...

Here’s an issue I ran into the other day and since I didn’t see it documented anywhere I thought I’d post a quick heads-up here: ======== When you try to open the SCVMM 2008 console you may receive the following error message: The SQL Server service account...

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...

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...