This article describes the installation instructions for Update Rollup 2 for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and the issues that are fixed in this update rollup. Update Rollup 2 for System Center Virtual Machine...

In Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2, you remove a virtual hard disk (VHD) from a virtual machine. You expect that the .vhd file is detached from the virtual machine. However, the .vhd file is actually deleted on the Hyper-V server...

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...

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...

I was recently working on an issue where after performing a successful P2V conversion, we would experience intermittent timeouts while trying to connect to or ping the new VM. We verified the IP address of the new VM, checked the DNS records, cleared...

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...

Hi Everyone, this is Nitin Bhat and Hector Linares from the fabric management team in SCVMM. While talking with TAP customers we got some great questions that we wanted to share with you all. ·Q: How does the SMI-S connection occur between VMM2012 and...

Greetings Everyone, I am Greg Cusanza, Program Manager on the SCVMM team.  Today I am going to blog about one of the interesting new features of VMM 2012, which  is the ability to control the power state of a host. We use both in-band methods...

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...

Are you looking for a good way to get started learning everything that’s new in VMM 2012? If so then here’s the guide for you: ===== In this post, I'll cover Unified Installer and Virtual Machine Manager. As usual, I will focus on the self-study material...

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 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...

Hi everyone, Biddappa Berera here, and today I’d like to talk about the scaling of services deployed to hostgroups and private clouds in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012. A service in VMM 2012 is a logical grouping of virtual machines that the...

When performing a physical-to-virtual (P2V) conversion of a Windows 2000 SP4 source computer using System Center Virtual Machine Manager, it may fail during the Scan System phase of the P2V wizard with the following error: Unable to convert physical...

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...

System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 Beta - Installable Bits (if you want to do that instead of VMs) http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34607 App Controller – Service Pack 1 Beta http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download...

Hi everyone, my name is Alaks Sevugan (Senior SCVMM Program Manager) and today I’d like to go over the concept of Services in SCVMM 2012.  A Service is the deployed instance of a collection of Virtual machines with applications, OS roles and features...

Now that System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager has released, we have some KB articles that describe a few of the things we saw during the beta that you may run into. Nothing really major, just some tips and FYIs you may want to be aware of. If you...

The following is a self-study guide put together by a Technical Account Manager here at Microsoft named Scott Rachui. He was gracious enough to let me post the contents here so if you’re looking for a crash course on System Center Advisor and App Controller...

Right before the Microsoft Management Summit 2012 I was preparing my demo environment for a session.  During the preparation I encountered some problems on one of the  demo hosts.  The troubled  host was in a “Needs Attention” status...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one discusses how VMM does not support GPT disks on P2V targets and that to successfully migrate a machine with a GPT disk, you must first convert the disk to MBR format. ===== Symptoms A physical...

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...

Here’s a heads up on a nice article I found over on the TechNet Wiki today. This is another one written by MVP Kristian Nese and it talks about load balancing and cloud computing in relation to SCVMM 2012: One characteristic of cloud computing is virtualized...

As part of VMM 2008 R2 we have added a new feature called maintenance mode.  This feature enables users to easily evacuate the VMs from a host in order to perform host maintenance (for more information on VMM's maintenance mode check out Cheng's...

Update Rollup 1 for System Center 2012 contains a number of fixes for System Center 2012 Operations Manager, App Controller and Virtual Machine Manager, including cross platform fixes and support for Oracle Solaris 11. I won’t go into all the details...