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Utilizing Virtualization and boot-from-vhd for making a dual-boot laptop

I received my brand new Dell Latitude E4300 laptop today and I wanted to make sure i could boot both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 on it. Here is how virtualization came in handy. Instead of partitioning my laptop using two partitions (one for Read More...
Posted Monday, June 01, 2009 9:20 PM by mlmich | (Comments Off)

Rapid Provisioning in VMM 2008 R2 using the UseLocalVirtualHardDisks and SkipInstallVirtualizationGuestServices flags

At MMS 2009, our team announced a new feature of VMM 2008 R2 called Rapid Provisioning. This feature is not available in VMM 2008 R2 beta, but it will be available in the upcoming release candidate and in the RTM version. This feature was implemented Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 07, 2009 5:46 AM by mlmich | 2 Comments
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Issues with adding a host to VMM when the computer has more than 16 processors

It has come to our attention that trying to add a computer with more than 16 processors (for example a quad six-core machine with 24 processors) is crashing the VMM server with the following exception: System.InvalidOperationException: Nullable object Read More...
Posted Monday, February 09, 2009 10:58 AM by mlmich | 3 Comments

Trying to add Windows Server 2008 R2 as a host to VMM 2008?

we have several customers that tried to add a Windows Server 2008 R2 as a host in VMM 2008. Our team has not validated that R2 will work with VMM 2008 and it is officially not supported. However, for the few of you that tried to add a Windows Server 2008 Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 25, 2009 1:59 PM by mlmich | 3 Comments

Running the Virtual Machine Manager server component inside a Virtual Machine

Running VMM inside a Virtual Machine is a fully supported way of running VMM. Our team tests this scenario and we have some customers deploying VMM in such an enviroment. If you would like to deploy VMM in such an environment, it is recommended to place Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 21, 2009 1:16 PM by mlmich | 2 Comments

Azman permissions for VMM-managed Hyper-V hosts

When VMM starts managing a hyper-v host, it takes full control of the Azman XML file that contains the permissions for Hyper-V. In fact, VMM will create a new copy of the file in a separate directory location and point hyper-v to that file (the file name Read More...
Posted Monday, January 12, 2009 12:18 PM by mlmich | 1 Comments

How to get the BIOS GUID from a Hyper-V VM

Hi all, the below vbscript (save as sample.vbs and execute using "cscript.exe sample.vbs"), will give you a list of all VMs in a hyper-v system as well as their respective BIOS GUIDs. This can help in troubleshooting VMM 2008 beta for the cases where Read More...
Posted Friday, July 04, 2008 10:13 PM by mlmich | 1 Comments

Ports being utilized by VMM 2008

Before our official documentation for VMM 2008 comes out, I wanted to outline for everyone all the ports that VMM 2008 RTM will use (almost all of these are the same for beta). Some of these ports are configurable during VMM setup – for those ports, I Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 01, 2008 4:45 AM by mlmich | 1 Comments

Hyper-V is now RTM

Hyper-V is now RTM and you should be able to find it on Microsoft Download Center shortly. This is a great release and the cornerstone for Microsoft's virtualization efforts. If you are wondering how VMM 2008 beta and Hyper-V will play together, read Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 26, 2008 12:47 PM by mlmich | (Comments Off)

How Virtual Machine Manager Administrator Console uses VirtualMachineViewer.exe

The VMM Administrator Console's VirtualMachineViewer.exe and the VMM Self-Service Portal (SSP) both use a same codebase for connecting to Hyper-V virtual machines. With the enhancements made to Win2k8 and VistaSP1, we are able to leverage MSTSCAX to connect Read More...
Posted Monday, June 02, 2008 1:46 PM by mlmich | (Comments Off)

Did you encounter an issue with VMM 2008 beta when you upgraded to Hyper-V RC1

A lot of you have been experiencing issues when you upgrade Hyper-V to RC1. I would like to reiterate that the VMM team knows about this and we apologize for the inconvenience. See this thread on technet forums for more details. http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3373834&SiteID=1 Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 22, 2008 1:29 PM by mlmich | (Comments Off)

How to enable PRO with VMM

Last week I mentioned I was going to talk about how to enable PRO with VMM. PRO stands for Physical Resource Optimization. If you followed my steps from last week, your Operations Manager and VMM servers are configured to work together to provide monitoring Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 22, 2008 1:19 PM by mlmich | 2 Comments

What are the different ways virtual machines can be migrated using VMM 2008

A post on the VMM newsgroup today prompted me to explain the different ways that VMs can be migrated when using VMM 2008. From a VMM perspective, we have a few ways that we allow you to move a VM from one host to another. I listed them below in no particular Read More...
Posted Monday, May 05, 2008 8:03 PM by mlmich | 1 Comments

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 beta is out!

This is the release a lot of people have been waiting for. A beta of VMM that supports Hyper-V. The team has worked extremely hard over the last few months to get this ready for MMS (the Microsoft Management Summit that is happening right now in Vegas). Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 29, 2008 12:04 PM by mlmich | (Comments Off)

getting the computer name of a virtual machine

A lot of people have asked me how they can get the actual computer name or FQDN of a virtual machine from from the host system. (FYI, this method does not allow you to get the IP address from within the VM - to do that, you would need to use your DNS Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 16, 2008 4:35 PM by mlmich | 2 Comments
 
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