This blog will now focus on advanced monitoring of heterogeneous data centers. This includes traditional physical servers, both Microsoft and non-Microsoft platforms. It will also include the virtual space, both Hyper-V as well as VMware. Lastly, it absolutely will include networking components!

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• System Center Virtual Machine Manager Gets Release Candidate

  http://redmondmag.com/articles/2009/06/08/microsoft-scvmm-2008-r2-rc.aspx Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 10, 2009 12:39 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: SCVMM

• TechNet Webcast: Using Windows PowerShell with Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager

  http://blogs.technet.com/scvmm/archive/2009/05/13/technet-webcast-using-windows-powershell-with-hyper-v-and-virtual-machine-manager.aspx Read More... Posted Saturday, May 16, 2009 12:56 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: SCVMM, Hyper-V

• SCVMM R2 RC Features

  http://blogs.technet.com/scvmm/archive/2009/05/11/scvmm-r2-rc-features.aspx Read More... Posted Saturday, May 16, 2009 12:53 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: SCVMM

• Four new SCVMM Knowledge Base articles: Week Ending 05/09/2009

  http://blogs.technet.com/scvmm/archive/2009/05/11/four-new-scvmm-knowledge-base-articles-for-the-week-ending-05-09-2009.aspx Read More... Posted Saturday, May 16, 2009 12:52 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: SCVMM

• Microsoft Targets Windows, Linux Management

  Courtesy of Network World - http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/042809-microsoft-windows-linux-management.html?hpg1=bn Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 29, 2009 10:14 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: R2, SCVMM

• System Center Virtualization Reports 2008 – FQDN Required

  When generating OpsMgr reports, most users have become comfortable simply specifying the host name when adding objects or groups. When generating System Center Virtualization Reports, you must specify the fully qualified domain name. The report instructs Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 07, 2009 4:55 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: Configuration, SCVMM

• Microsoft System Center Management for Virtualization

  http://www.microsoft.com/video/en/us/details/c754f940-b5a1-43ee-99f1-d9e083dbc81a Read More... Posted Friday, April 03, 2009 12:06 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: Tools & Utilities, Operational Tuning, SCVMM, OpsMgr

• When you try to enable, disable, or update Hyper-V technology, the process stops responding (…hangs at 53% forever…)

  Just wanted to point out KB article 950792 ( http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;950792 ). If you are moving to production Hyper-V in an HP environment, keep this handy. Read More... Posted Friday, March 20, 2009 5:53 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: SCVMM, Hyper-V

• Working with Views

  Once you complete the configuration for integration of SCVMM and OpsMgr, the first thing that jumps put is a set of new views: Virtual Machine Manager 2008 and Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Views. What i quickly noticed is it is not that easy to readily Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 18, 2009 6:51 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: Configuration, SCVMM, OpsMgr

• Configuring OpsMgr with SCVMM 2008 – VMM Service Account

  If your SCVMM and OpsMgr environments are distributed, it is important to make sure the virtual machine service runs under a dedicated domain account and not Local System. Otherwise, you will receive the following message when you try to specify the RMS Read More... Posted Monday, March 16, 2009 5:22 PM by walterch | 5 Comments Filed under: SCVMM