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Cheng's Random Thoughts on System Management

Senior Program Manager, MSD

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Got a "Bad Gateway"?
Greetings, folks! Hope you had a great Easter on last Sunday, if you celebrate that holiday! My kids certainly enjoyed hunting eggs in a typical Seattle drizzling Saturday morning. J This blog entry is for folks who use or plan to use VMM to manage VMware Read More...
All about refreshers ...
If you have been using VMM for a while, you’ve probably figured out that we use various “refreshers” to pull data from the hosts and VMs that we manage. When deploying VMM in various sized environments, depending on the perf/scale requirements, you might Read More...
Removing an ESX host or stopping managing an ESX host?
We have heard some feedback that some of our customers did not expect VMM to remove an ESX host when a "Remove" action was requested for an ESX host managed through VirtualCenter Server (VC) by VMM Server. So, I think that it might be worth to talk about Read More...
Add host into VMM 2008 Beta
Well, once you finish installing VMM Server and have your admin console setup, the next you want to do is to start managing your hosts. Virtual Server hosts, Hyper-V hosts and VMware ESX hosts. I talked about managing VMware VCS and how VMM imports the Read More...
VMM 2008 Architecture
If you are in MMS 2008 , you've probably seen this architecture diagram: For folks who did not get a chance to go, here are some of the key architectual characteristics that I'd like to point out: On the top-left corner, notice that the UIs (admin console Read More...
Managing VMware
Why should I use VMM to manage my VMware? In Rakesh's post , he talked extensively on why we decided to manage VMware. From customer value prop point of view, I just wanted to highlight one of the key values SCVMM 2008 brings -- the ability to provide Read More...
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Beta has been shipped!
Greetings! Earlier this morning, at MMS 2008 (Las Vegas), we announced that SCVMM 2008 (vNext) Beta is released and available for download at Connect site immediately. Here is the official press release . More news and pictures about our beta release Read More...
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