367 questions with System Center Virtual Machine Manager tags
Windows Server 2016 / Hyper-V: SR-IOV Guest Teaming and Switch Embedded Teaming (SET) on Host - Best Practise
Hi everyone, I came accross a question that I couldn't find any updated advice on so I'd love to read your thoughts on this: Setup is a Hyper-V-Host-Cluster with 2x 10GB-RDMA/SR-IOV-capable NICs for each host that are teamed using Hyper-V Switch…
Azure Portal Locked
Hello This is Chamon Rahman My Azure Portal is locked for three days. I have student subscription for learning purpose. Could you please unlock my account. Please contact me at chamon_begum@Karima ben .com or 581-835-1383. Best Regards …
Issue adding new HyperV virtual switch in SCVMM 2012
We have 3 Hyper-V hosts running Server 2012 R2, majority of the VM's are showing "Unsupported Cluster Configuration" in SCVMM, additionally there is no Virtual Switch listed under Virtual Switches in the cluster properties. So I started…
SCVMM and HyperV certificates
hi, i would like to know if we can replace the self-signed certificate "SCVMM_CERTIFICATE_KEY_CONTAINERhostname" on SCVMM server and on the managed HyperV Hosts with CA signed certificates in the local computer account personal store. Also in…
Query pass-through disk properties (size, file name / location) by powershell
Hi Gurus, I have to query all of our vm's virtual disk properties from SCVMM. Everything working properly with normal virtual disks via Get-SCVirtualDiskDrive and Get-SCVirtualHardDisk cmdlets, however I cannot find details for pass-through disk,…
VMM jobs history too short?
Hi. Is there any option/solution to create a DW for VMM? Maybe not a real DW, basically what we need is to keep the VMM job history longer (years/indefinitely) and be able to search in that history. If there's no such solution, could it be done in some…
Converting ESXi 5.5 VM to Hyper-V using SCVMM 2016 Library giving Specified Memory Size Error
I am attempting to convert a VM over to Hyper-V using SCVMM 2016. I copied a restore of the ESXi 5.5 VM's files into the SCVMM 2016 Library, and am trying to use the Convert Virtual Machine option. When doing so, I am specifying the RAM correctly (in…
VMM 2019 PXE Physical Deployment keeps deploying wrong version of Server 2019
Hi Guys, I have interesting issue with VMM 2019 (latest SP) Each time i deploy a build using physical computer deployment, it keeps deploying standard edition on only 1 node. 3 deploy with datacentre. 1 is standard. Yet there all following the…
Error while creating Network Controller Service Instance- Software Defined Networking
Hi, I have created an environment to test MS Software Defined Networking using Hyper-V VMs in my laptop. One of the VMs has the SCVMM installed in it. I have downloaded the templates for Network Controller from MS's GitHub repository - Single…
Create S2D Cluster fails with Error 25325 "An error occurred while performing the operation"
Hi guys, Hoping someone could point me in the right direction here... Got 4 nodes provisioned in our VMM 2019 (latest build) server. The nodes are Server 2019 Datacenter core up-to-date (Jan '21). We're trying to use VMM to provision an S2D…
Debugging VMM Event ID 20404
I'm getting an Event ID 20404 in VMM when trying to live migrate or run the dynamic optimizer: How would I debug this issue? Specifically, where can I look for more detailed information as to what object it's looking for that it can't find?
SCOM 2019 and SCVMM 2019 integration - error 10218
I've read through the other posts regarding this issue but none have helped. I have SCOM 2019 on a physical server and SCVMM 2019 on a Hyper-v VM. When I try to integrate the two using these steps: …
SCOM2016/VMM2016 integration error 11823
My SCOM2016/VMM2016 integration is no longer working. The reported error is 11823: VMM Management group object cannot be found. One or more of the Virtual Machine Manager objects monitored by Operations Manager could not be discovered. This might…
Is Dynamic shutdown of a hypervisor is supported in Hyper-V Cluster or SCVMM?
If I have a Hyper-V cluster of 4 nodes and I have all VMs running on only 2 hyper-v servers and 2 are idle. Is there a way to keep 3rd server available for failover and shutdown 4th server when not required? Further to this, is there a way to start the…
Can not configure the properties and other settings of Hyper-V in VMM 2016.
Hi, We had a problem. We want to add a server into our S2D cluster. In S2D cluster,we can see that node has been added into the cluster. In VMM 2016, We find this new node is in pending status in "VMs and services". We click this node and…
How to remove a hyper-v host from SCVMM and this hyper-v host staus is ’adding‘ in SCVMM
Hi, How to remove a hyper-v host from SCVMM and this hyper-v host staus is ’adding‘ in SCVMM. Because the status is "adding", So when i right-click this node, the remove function is grey and we can't remove it. So I try to run the…
Creating a CLoned DC (VM) in different VLAN without affecting the live production
HI Experts! We have an incoming Exchange upgrade implementation project by next year and we want to test it on the LAB enviroment. to do that, we need to prepare at least the same setup on what is on the production. Now, one of our problem is to Clone…
SCVMM 2019 - permissions to edit Custom Properties
Hello, We have migrated from SCVMM 2012 R2 to 2019. After this migration our users lost permissions to edit "Custom properties" tab within each Virtual Machine. I cannpot find any useful informaton what permissions user need to have access…
System Center VMM Host Reserves on Host Groups values
Hi Been using VMM for years now, but I still run into settings that make me wonder what the hell they are for. Or that I just never needed to have a look at. One of the Tabs on a Host Resource Group is called Host Reserves. I'm puzzled…
Hyper-V cluster break during VMWare snapshoot
Hi All, we have a SQL failover cluster with 2 nodes. However, every time we run a snapshot of those nodes as a part of our backup process it will be a getting event ID 1135 which is a cluster node disconnecting. further, we have configured our File…