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Issues when trying to add a single-node cluster under management in VMM

A few folks have been experiencing errors and long delays in adding a single-node (i.e. a 1 node cluster) cluster under management in Virtual Machine Manager. This issue stems from the fact that VMM has an overcommitted property for each cluster. By default, Read More...
Posted Friday, November 27, 2009 1:33 PM by mlmich | (Comments Off)

How to get the audit trail records from a VMM Job

Today, in VMM, you can open the Administrator Console and click on the Jobs view to see all the Jobs in VMM. When you select an individual job, you can click on the "Change Tracking" tab and view any changes that were recorded in VMM as part of this job. Read More...
Posted Friday, November 27, 2009 1:03 AM by mlmich | (Comments Off)

New features in VMM 2008 R2

In line with the Rapid Provisioning feature that i mentioned in my previous blog post, Vishwa, a PM from our team, just posted a comprehensive list of new features of VMM 2008 R2. Check it out here: http://blogs.technet.com/scvmm/archive/2009/05/11/scvmm-r2-rc-features.asp Read More...
Posted Monday, May 11, 2009 12:49 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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Using the VMM Self Service Portal from a Win7 computer

We have seen a lot of cases of customers trying to view the Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal (SSP) UI from a computer running Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7. If the portal is running VMM 2008, it is likely that you can't view the connections Read More...
Posted Saturday, April 04, 2009 5:49 PM by mlmich | (Comments Off)

VMM 2008 R2 beta is now released

The much anticipated VMM 2008 R2 beta is now released. You can go to http://connect.microsoft.com/ and sign up for the beta. Click on "Connection Directory" and sort by the newest beta programs or search for "System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Read More...
Posted Monday, March 16, 2009 11:55 AM by mlmich | (Comments Off)

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

How to enable server-optimized garbage collector for VMM

If your VMM implementation has over 150 hosts, we strongly recommended that you enable server-optimized garbage collector (GC) on the VMM server instead of the default workstation garbage collector. This can significantly reduce the CPU utilization on Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 04, 2009 10:38 AM by mlmich | (Comments Off)

SCVMM 2008 Releases Management Pack Update

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 platforms Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 28, 2009 5:53 PM by mlmich | 1 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

Getting an incorrect SAN migration option during clone-vm in VMM

If you have a Failover Cluster managed by VMM 2008, it is possible that you will get a placement page similar to the one below if you try to clone a Highly Available Virtual Machine that is part of the cluster. The placement page in the new-vm wizard Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 11, 2008 11:20 AM by mlmich | (Comments Off)

Highly Available Virtual Networks and VMM

We had a few customers ask us to clarify high availability (HA) with regards to Virtual Networks (VN). In the VMM/Clustering case, there are a few considerations around virtual networks: A VN to be considered HA has to have the same exact name in all Read More...
Posted Monday, November 10, 2008 6:46 PM by mlmich | 1 Comments

How to upgrade between the different SKUs of VMM 2008

Now that VMM 2008 has RTM'ed, a lot of folks are asking what are the upgrade paths between the various SKUs of VMM. I wanted to list two upgrade paths here and the associated process around this. Upgrade Paths supported by this method when the build number Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 22, 2008 11:01 PM by mlmich | 1 Comments
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