On behalf of the SCVMM product team and I am proud to announce the availability of SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1 RTM. Support for new features of Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Dynamic Memory: Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V supports...

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...

Since releasing VMM R2 Beta, we’ve been working on an update to R2 and we’re readying a RC version that will ship in early June (VMM TAP customers will get an early preview later this month). In this context, I just wanted to give a headsup on some new...

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...

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...

The VMM team is proud to announce the public availability of the Release Candidate for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 (VMM)! FEEDBACK Please read the following regarding providing feedback: Submit bugs via the Connect Site. ...

On behalf of the whole System Center Virtual Machine Manager product team it is with great pleasure we’re announcing the public release availability of SCVMM 2012 Beta . With this release you will be able to do: Fabric Management ...

Have you ever run into a situation where a failed P2V or other job leaves you with a VM you cannot delete? I have and it usually ends up looking something like this: Recently we’ve had a couple of cases come in where a VM was stuck in the Creating...

Just a quick note to let you know we updated the following Knowledge Base article this morning: KB2397711 - Recommended hotfixes for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Added is a recommendation to install the latest version of the System Center...

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...

The Beta of System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (“SP1”) enables System Center customers to jointly evaluate System Center 2012 with Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8. The Beta is for evaluation purposes only and not to be used in production as described...

My buddy Jonathan Jordan recently came across an interesting issue and wrote up a great solution, and since he’s out today I thought I’d take the liberty of posting it. If you ever find yourself in a position where you tried to remove a VM but it ended...

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...

Installation Prerequisites The following section discusses the hardware, Operating System, Software and Infrastructure Prerequisites to be considered before installing System Center Virtual Machine Manager. Prerequisites are also provided for the...

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...

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...

Over the past few months I have been seeing a couple of these cases come by where when you try to add a host to System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 it fails with the following message: Error (2912) An internal error has occurred trying to contact...

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...

Microsoft SCVMM 2012 can manage Microsoft Server Application Virtualization (Server App-V) packages. In this blog post, we are going to explain what a Server App-V package means and how we can create Server App-V packages with Microsoft Server Application...

SCVMM R2 RC Features Since releasing VMM R2 Beta, we’ve been working on an update to R2 and we’re readying a RC version that will ship in early June (VMM TAP customers will get an early preview later this month). In this context, I just wanted to give...

The VMM 2008 R2 SP1 RC has been available for about a week now and hopefully you’ve had a chance to download it. If not, jump over to Microsoft Connect and search for SCVMM and get your download started in the background while you read this walkthrough...

With the Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 RC now available it wouldn’t be hard to guess that an update to SCVMM 2008 R2 wasn’t far behind...  well here it is! We’re pleased to announce SCVMM 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Release Candidate is now ready to download...

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...

The Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC) Solution Accelerator is a Microsoft-supported, stand-alone solution for the IT pro or solution provider who wants to convert VMware-based virtual machines and disks to Hyper-V®-based virtual machines and...

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. The Hyper-V storage stack in Windows Server 2012 now supports increased resiliency...