Virtual Machine Management : VMM 2008 R2 RTM

Taking advantange of Windows PowerShell Remoting and VMM cmdlets

mlmich — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:50:00 GMT

Even though VMM does not officially support the Windows PowerShell Remoting feature of PowerShell v2, you can get this to work by following the guidelines in this blog post. Officially, to execute the VMM cmdlets you need to install the VMM Administrator...(read more)

How to properly share ISO files in VMM with Hyper-V

mlmich — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 23:20:00 GMT

In this blog post, I will talk about what is the proper way to share ISO files with VMM and Hyper-V when the ISO files reside in the VMM library (i.e. a file server share). First, you need to follow Jose Barreto's blog post on how to properly enable constrained...(read more)

Working with VMware VI4 (aka vSphere)

mlmich — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:38:00 GMT

Even though VMM 2008 R2 (beta or RC) does not officially support VMware vSphere/VI4, we have a few customers that have gotten some of the functionality to work. However, one of the issues that can arise is a failure to find paths in ESX storage. Typically,...(read more)

SCVMM 2008 R2 Release Date

mlmich — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:12:00 GMT

hey guys, If you are wondering when VMM 2008 R2 will release, this latest blog post by Rakesh will give you the inside track. http://blogs.technet.com/rakeshm/archive/2009/07/13/scvmm-2008-r2-release-date-information.aspx cheers....(read more)

SCVMM 2008 R2 RC Public Release Available Now!

mlmich — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:45:00 GMT

hi all, today the VMM team released VMM 2008 R2 Release Candidate. You can read all about it here. http://blogs.technet.com/scvmm/archive/2009/06/06/scvmm-2008-r2-rc-public-release-available-now.aspx Cheers....(read more)

New features in VMM 2008 R2

mlmich — Mon, 11 May 2009 20:49:00 GMT

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)

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

mlmich — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:46:00 GMT

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)