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...

Operations Manager Integration and Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) Background System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 R2 uses System Center Operations Manager 2007 to monitor the health and availability of the virtual machines and...

Just a quick FYI on another interesting article by Leandro Carvalho that showed up in the TechNet Wiki yesterday.  This one discusses how to use VM Templates in SCVMM 2012 to deploy a server incredibly quickly and easily: Automation! This is a word...

Here’s another interesting article that showed up in the TechNet Wiki yesterday, published by Microsoft Partner and MVP Leandro E. Carvalho. This one discusses how to use the Dynamic Optimization feature in SCVMM 2012 to save energy and save money: System...

Last week I posted a link to an article written by Microsoft Partner and MVP Leandro E. Carvalho that talked about building your own private cloud using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 and now he’s back at it with part 2.  In this installment...

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...

The Dutch Hyper-V Community was founded in 2008 by Jaap Wesselius during one of the first Hyper-V deployments in The Netherlands. Jaap was quickly accompanied by Hans Vredevoort. Both Jaap and Hans are awarded with the MVP award. Jaap has been an Exchange...

Here’s another interesting article that showed up in the TechNet Wiki yesterday, published by Microsoft Partner and MVP Leandro E. Carvalho.  This one discusses how to manage the size of your VirtualManagerDB_log: Ok, you have had your SCVMM server...

I was recently at MMS where I had sessions related to fabric management (network and Storage) and Services modeling within SCVMM 2012. One of the questions we were asked in the birds of the feather session was around best practices related to networking...

Here’s another article written by Microsoft MVP Leandro E. Carvalho that’s over in the TechNet Wiki. This one walks you through some of the features and requirements of SCVMM 2012: With the constant adoption of new virtualization solutions and resources...

The new articles just keeping flying into the TechNet Wiki , and this time it’s one about using SCVMM 2012 to create your own private cloud.  This article written by Microsoft MVP Leandro E. Carvalho who’s been on quite a roll lately with a lot of...

VMM 2008 R2 SP1 has been out for just over a week now and we’ve been very pleased with the excitement it’s been generating in the user community.  One question that’s come up a lot in the last few days is which download package to use and if there...

Our very own Hector Linares just posted a great article over on his blog talking about how to visualize your storage environment by using a NetApp PowerShell script that generates a Visio diagram with aggregate, volume, and LUN information.  This...

Ever since Windows Phone 7 was launched late last year there’s been a growing buzz surrounding Microsoft’s new phone OS, and with the recent announcement that the Windows Phone Marketplace had surpassed 10,000 apps in those 4-5 months and was growing...

So you got your hands on the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 beta and it looks cool and all but now what?  Time to start a pet shop.  But not just any pet shop, the .NET Pet Shop.  If you’re wanting to get a good taste of the...

Introduction Today I am pleased to announce the release to web of SCVMM 2012 MpsRpt Beta Tool that enables support for collecting trace logs in SCVMM 2012 Beta.  SCVMM 2012 MpsRpt Tool  was developed to provide a utility to manage, collect,...

Greetings, Today I am announcing the Release to Web of  an updated Virtual Machine Manager Configuration Analyzer (VMMCA) (version 1524) that adds support for SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1 and refines some troubleshooting for identifying the required hot fixes...

Hi, I am Hector Linares, Senior Program Manager on the SCVMM team. This blog is an overview of the storage automation feature set in System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2012. The goal of this feature is to simplify and automate the discovery,...

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 an overview of how to integrate a load balancer into your SCVMM 2012 Beta environment for use in deploying VMM created  services. Introduction In SCVMM...

Hi, I’m Kerim Hanif and and I work as a Program Manager on the SCVMM team. Today I am going to talk about the High Available VMM server (HA VMM) feature in SCVMM 2012 Beta. During the evolution of the VMM server product from VMM 2007 to VMM 2008...

Hi, I’m Eric Winner, Principal Program Manager on the SCVMM team. Just last week at MMS 2011 we announced the public beta for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Beta . Today, I’m going to provide a high-level overview of the features and in the...

Just an FYI on a new System Center Virtual Machine Manager Knowledge Base article we published this morning: ===== Summary When you attach a GPT pass-through disk provided from SAS storage (Serial attached SCSI) to a highly available virtual machine by...

Easy as pie. Like taking candy from a baby. A walk in the park. Like shooting fish in a barrel. You hear those phrases all the time. But how often do you hear them applied to installing server applications in a datacenter? Sure, maybe you have some web...

Kenon Owens joined Symon Perriman on the Edge stage to talk about the new features and focus of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012, which as we mentioned a couple days ago is available in beta today. New to SCVMM 2012 is the concept of clouds...