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Two new Virtual Machine Manager KB articles for the week ending 11/7
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.  Read More...
TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Virtualization Best Practices for Exchange Server
Virtualizing business critical applications delivers significant benefits, including cost savings, enhanced business continuity, and an agile and efficient management solution. In this webcast, we focus on virtualizing Microsoft Exchange Server using Read More...
Solution: You may be unable to create Virtual Machines after re-installing SCVMM using a retained database
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 Read More...
Troubleshooting and data gathering for SCVMM
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 Read More...
Updated Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides available
The Infrastructure Planning and Design team has released two updated virtualization guides: Windows Server Virtualization and System Center Virtual Machine Manager These guides, updated to reflect the features and functionalities of Windows Server® 2008 Read More...
Adding a SCVMM 2008 host in a external trusted domain fails with error 2917
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 Read More...
Attempting to migrate or VMotion a VM from one clustered host to another may result in "A general system error occurred: Failed waiting for data. Error 16. Invalid argument"
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 Read More...
Free e-book: Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions
Microsoft Press offers complimentary book “Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions“. This guide will teach you about the benefits of the latest virtualization technologies and how to plan, implement, and manage virtual infrastructure solutions. Read More...
Webcast: Using Windows PowerShell with Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager
Just an FYI that at 10:00am Eastern time on Thursday, September 10, 2009, we’ll be hosting a webcast focused on Windows Power Shell, Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager: ======== Windows PowerShell is likely to become the automation tool Read More...
Fixing ‘Unsupported Cluster Configuration’ status caused by virtual network settings
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 Read More...
Adding an EMC Symmetrix GEO Cluster to SCVMM 2008 may fail with Error 1612
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 Read More...
TechNet Webcast: Saving IT Costs with Windows Server 2008 R2 and Virtualization Technologies
Just an FYI that at 11:00am Pacific time on Thursday, July 23, 2009, we’ll be hosting a webcast exploring how Windows Server 2008 R2 saves IT costs by using Virtualization technologies to consolidate servers, improve availability, improve manageability Read More...
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 - Quick Storage Migration
Just a heads up on a new blog post by Edwin Yuen, Senior Technical Product Manager at Microsoft's Integrated Virtualization team.  In this post he talks about another type of migration being added to System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2: Read More...
VMMCA 2008 Update 1 - Your first stop when troubleshooting SCVMM 2008 RTM
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 Read More...
Two new SCVMM Knowledge Base articles for the week ending 05/30/2009
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 Read More...
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