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In Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2, you remove a virtual hard disk (VHD) from a virtual machine. You expect that the .vhd file is detached from the virtual machine. However, the .vhd file is actually deleted on the Hyper-V server.
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We published two new knowledge base articles for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 last week. The first discusses some steps that will help you troubleshoot a status of "Not Responding" that may appear in the Administrator Console.
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Here’s a good tip in case you ever want to reinstall System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM). If you use the "Retain Data" option you will likely be unable to create Virtual Machines if the same build of SCVMM is re-installed. If
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Yea, I know this isn’t Virtual Machine Manager specific but it’s something we run into every now and then that I thought could use a little publicity. If you ever get the error “The Hypervisor is not running” when you try to launch a VM then Felipe
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We had a new System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Knowledge Base article published last week. This one discusses an issue where SAN migration may fail with error 1600 after upgrading to to System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2: KB975426
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I was working with the System Center Virtual Machine Manager support team a few months back looking for a way that we could help reduce the amount of time it takes to resolve a case as well as reduce the number of incidents we get, and one of the things
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When trying to add a System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 host in a remote domain configured with an external trust , you receive the following error: Error (2917) Virtual Machine Manager cannot process the request because an error occurred while
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Greetings, Today I am announcing the Release to Web of System Center Virtual Machine Manager Configuration Analyzer (VMMCA) that adds support for SCVMM 2008 and 2008 R2 and also adds additional troubleshooting rules. Overview Customers have come to rely
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Good Morning, I am pleased to announce the Release to Web availability of the updated SCVMM 2008 and 2008 R2 MpsReports. Overview The SCVMM 2008 and 2008 R2 Microsoft Product Support Reports helps Support Professionals, ITPros and System Administrators
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Here’s an issue I recently came across and since I didn’t see this documented anywhere I wanted to give you a heads up. Attempting to migrate (VMotion) a VM from one clustered host to another may result in the following error: Error: "A general system
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When trying to install the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Administrator Console, it may fail during the Prerequisites Check with the following error message: To continue, you must complete all prerequisites. Resolve all error conditions listed
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Here’s a great post on how to fix an ‘Unsupported Cluster Configuration’ status when it’s caused by a configuration issue with the virtual networks. I found this one when I was looking through some of various System Center Virtual Machine Manager
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When adding a Windows Server 2008 / EMC Symmetrix Cluster (Geo-cluster) as a host to SCVMM 2008, you may get the following error: Code: 1612 Problem: The connection to the Virtual Machine Manager server localhost was lost. Action: 1) Verify that localhost
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Greetings, There are many occasions on the public forums where a customer is struggling with a commonly known issue on VMM 2008 RTM. For those commonly known issues we have bundled those up into a tool called the Virtual Machine Management Configuration
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We had two new System Center Virtual Machine Manager Knowledge Base articles last week. The first is about a perimeter host communication issue and the second is about an issue you may run into doing P2Vs. The links and titles are below: KB971825
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