Advanced Monitoring with System Center Operations Manager 2007 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager : SCVMM

System Center Virtual Machine Manager Gets Release Candidate

walterch — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:39:50 GMT

http://redmondmag.com/articles/2009/06/08/microsoft-scvmm-2008-r2-rc.aspx

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

walterch — Sat, 16 May 2009 14:56:59 GMT

http://blogs.technet.com/scvmm/archive/2009/05/13/technet-webcast-using-windows-powershell-with-hyper-v-and-virtual-machine-manager.aspx

SCVMM R2 RC Features

walterch — Sat, 16 May 2009 14:53:31 GMT

http://blogs.technet.com/scvmm/archive/2009/05/11/scvmm-r2-rc-features.aspx

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

walterch — Sat, 16 May 2009 14:52:05 GMT

http://blogs.technet.com/scvmm/archive/2009/05/11/four-new-scvmm-knowledge-base-articles-for-the-week-ending-05-09-2009.aspx

Microsoft Targets Windows, Linux Management

walterch — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:14:02 GMT

Courtesy of Network World - http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/042809-microsoft-windows-linux-management.html?hpg1=bn

System Center Virtualization Reports 2008 – FQDN Required

walterch — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:55:20 GMT

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 you to do this but this is very easy to overlook.

Microsoft System Center Management for Virtualization

walterch — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:06:14 GMT

http://www.microsoft.com/video/en/us/details/c754f940-b5a1-43ee-99f1-d9e083dbc81a

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

walterch — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:53:28 GMT

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.

Working with Views

walterch — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:51:38 GMT

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 identify and distinguish a server in OpsMgr that is a guest on a host or parked in the library. So I whipped up two simple views.

The first view shows all servers stored in the VMM library. It is a state view. When selecting a target type, select ‘Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Managed Virtual Machine’. There are two entries. Select the one whose description is ‘This virtual machine is stored in a library’. Of course you can further define the view based on any additional criteria. Also, be sure to personalize the view and definitely select ‘Name’ at the very minimum. You now have an OpsMgr view which shows all servers / templates stored in the VMM Library.

The second view shows all servers monitored by OpsMgr that are guests on host systems. It is a state view. When selecting a target type, select ‘Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Managed Virtual Machine’. There are two entries. Select the one whose description is ‘This virtual machine is hosted by a host. You can further define the view based on any additional criteria. You now have an OpsMgr view which shows all servers which are virtualized.

Configuring OpsMgr with SCVMM 2008 – VMM Service Account

walterch — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:22:00 GMT

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 in the VMM Administration Console:

The Virtual Machine Manager service does not have required credentials to access the Operations Manager SDK service on ‘servername-rms’.

Add the VMM service account as an Administrator on the Operations Manager server, and then try the operation again.

ID: 11804

As the resolution states, you will need to add the VMM Service Account to the Management Group’s Administrator role otherwise you will not be able to complete the integration.