While in Seattle for TR 10 I had an opportunity to meet up with an innovative startup called VMUtil.com ( www.vmutil.com ). Led by a Microsoft File System / Storage MVP, they have come up with some excellent tools to make Hyper-V more efficient with non-SAN storage solutions and add value when SAN storage...

This was fun! The environment I am presently working in is undergoing a massive P2V effort. If it can be virtualized, its being virtualized. I swear they’d virtualize the refrigerator in the break room if that was possible. The RMS was hosted on a P-Class Blade and today it was scheduled to be virtualized...

http://redmondmag.com/articles/2009/06/08/microsoft-scvmm-2008-r2-rc.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/scvmm/archive/2009/05/13/technet-webcast-using-windows-powershell-with-hyper-v-and-virtual-machine-manager.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/scvmm/archive/2009/05/11/scvmm-r2-rc-features.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/scvmm/archive/2009/05/11/four-new-scvmm-knowledge-base-articles-for-the-week-ending-05-09-2009.aspx

Courtesy of Network World - http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/042809-microsoft-windows-linux-management.html?hpg1=bn

When generating OpsMgr reports, most users have become comfortable simply specifying the host name when adding objects or groups. When generating System Center Virtualization Reports, you must specify the fully qualified domain name. The report instructs you to do this but this is very easy to overlook...

http://www.microsoft.com/video/en/us/details/c754f940-b5a1-43ee-99f1-d9e083dbc81a

Just wanted to point out KB article 950792 ( http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;950792 ). If you are moving to production Hyper-V in an HP environment, keep this handy.

Once you complete the configuration for integration of SCVMM and OpsMgr, the first thing that jumps put is a set of new views: Virtual Machine Manager 2008 and Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Views. What i quickly noticed is it is not that easy to readily identify and distinguish a server in OpsMgr that...

If your SCVMM and OpsMgr environments are distributed, it is important to make sure the virtual machine service runs under a dedicated domain account and not Local System. Otherwise, you will receive the following message when you try to specify the RMS in the VMM Administration Console: The Virtual...