Virtual Machine Management
Managing Virtual & Physical Computers in the Datacenter and in the Cloud
Fixing switch port leaks in VMM
hi everyone, it has become apparent that VMM 2008 R2 has switch port leaks when performing...
Date: 05/16/2011
Supporting SUSE 11 in VMM 2008 R2 (or SP1)
if you are following Hyper-V, you know that they added support fo?r ?SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11...
Date: 04/29/2011
The Experts Conference
hi everyone, the experts conference (TEC) kicks off in 3 weeks in vegas. I will be speaking there on...
Date: 04/01/2011
How to deploy the Pet Shop Application as a Service in VMM
hi everyone, Maha Ibrahim from the VMM team prepared this great blog entry for how to deploy the Pet...
Date: 03/29/2011
VMM service crashes with System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x8007200A)
hi everyone, this is a troubleshooting blog post on how to fix and issue with VMM 2012 where the VMM...
Date: 03/24/2011
Announcing VMM 2008 R2 SP1 and VMM 2012 Beta
hi everyone, i was in Las Vegas this week at the Microsoft Management Summit 2011, where we...
Date: 03/24/2011
Tuning VMM for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) scenarios
hi everyone, my co-worker Vishwa just posted a great article that includes tips on how to tune...
Date: 02/02/2011
Virtual Machine Manager Connector for Remote Desktop Services VDI solution released
Michael just posted a blog on the VMM Connector for RDS that was just released today....
Date: 01/19/2011
Tech·Ed Europe
hi everyone, i wanted to let you know I will be attending Tech-Ed Europe in Berlin from 8 - 12 of...
Date: 11/01/2010
Resolving certificate name mismatches when managing a Hyper-V host in VMM
This blog post comes courtesy of Todd Logan, a colleague at Microsoft. Use the following steps to...
Date: 09/01/2010
Issues with migrating a Virtual Machine from one cluster to another
if you have two Hyper-V failover clusters managed by VMM 2008 R2, it is possible that you can't...
Date: 09/01/2010
Recognizing the operating system version of a domain controller for VMM 2008
hi all, this blog post applies to only VMM 2008 (VMM 2008 R2 or a later version of VMM do not...
Date: 08/02/2010
How to get the IP address of a virtual machine from Hyper-V
With the release of Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V added the capability to get the IP address...
Date: 07/28/2010
Getting the OS name for "Windows 2000" to show up properly in the VMM Administrator Console
if you are managing a Windows 2000 Server Virtual Machine with Hyper-V, you might notice that VMM...
Date: 04/16/2010
Removing missing VMs from the VMM Administrator Console
it has come to our attention that there are some customer complaints with regards to missing virtual...
Date: 04/16/2010
Saving and re-applying the virtual machine metadata in VMM
hi everyone, this week i am going to post a new set of PowerShell scripts that will allow you to...
Date: 04/15/2010
Supporting Red Hat for Hyper-V
I am sure many of you have heard of the recent support statements from Windows Hyper-V with regards...
Date: 04/15/2010
Virtual Machine Manager and Performance Metrics (CPU counters) - Part 1
Chetan from my team volunteered to write a two part blog post about how VMM gathers the performance...
Date: 03/29/2010
Microsoft Management Summit 2010 (MMS 2010)
hi everyone, i am just writing to let you know that I will be MMS 2010...
Date: 03/12/2010
VMM Administrator Console taking too much time to load (because of PRO)
If you have enabled the PRO integration with operations manager in your VMM environment, then this...
Date: 03/12/2010
How to fix slow offline P2V times in VMM b/c of duplex switches
if you are experiencing a slow offline P2V time due to a network that has 100mb full duplex enabled...
Date: 03/08/2010
Usage of Distributed Switches in VMM
If you are using VMM to manage a VMware vSphere environment and started using some of the new...
Date: 03/03/2010
Error 800704DD happening during a LAN migration/deployment of a VM or during a new virtual machine creation
if you are using VMM and have experienced error 0x800704DD during either a new virtual machine...
Date: 03/03/2010
Selecting 3 virtual processors in Hyper-V will crash the VMM Administrator Console
It is a known issue in Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 that if you select 3 Virtual CPU (Processors)...
Date: 01/19/2010
The VMM 2008 R2 VHD is now available for download
if you are like me and you like to try software first before you buy them, then the VMM 2008 R2 VHD...
Date: 12/31/2009
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 book
hey everyone, I have some great news. The FIRST System Center Virtual Machine Manager book is now...
Date: 12/10/2009
Issues when trying to add a single-node cluster under management in VMM
A few folks have been experiencing errors and long delays in adding a single-node (i.e. a 1 node...
Date: 11/27/2009
How to get the audit trail records from a VMM Job
Today, in VMM, you can open the Administrator Console and click on the Jobs view to see all the Jobs...
Date: 11/26/2009
How to differentiate between two cmdlets with the same name
In some instances, more than one product can have a cmdlet with the same name. This blog post will...
Date: 08/20/2009
Taking advantange of Windows PowerShell Remoting and VMM cmdlets
Even though VMM does not officially support the Windows PowerShell Remoting feature of PowerShell...
Date: 08/16/2009
How to properly share ISO files in VMM with Hyper-V
In this blog post, I will talk about what is the proper way to share ISO files with VMM and Hyper-V...
Date: 08/15/2009
Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP mode have a blog :)
Check out the team blog site of the new Windows 7 features of Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode...
Date: 08/05/2009
Working with Windows PowerShell 2.0 advanced functionality
hey everyone, today i have a guest poster on my blog. Laurie McKnight from the VMM team will...
Date: 07/16/2009
Working with VMware VI4 (aka vSphere)
Even though VMM 2008 R2 (beta or RC) does not officially support VMware vSphere/VI4, we have a few...
Date: 07/15/2009
SCVMM 2008 R2 Release Date
hey guys, If you are wondering when VMM 2008 R2 will release, this latest blog post by Rakesh will...
Date: 07/13/2009
How to get data (like the integration services version) from Msvm_KvpExchangeDataItem in Hyper-V
Today, if you are using VMM, you can quickly and easily find out if your VM has the integration...
Date: 06/10/2009
SCVMM 2008 R2 RC Public Release Available Now!
hi all, today the VMM team released VMM 2008 R2 Release Candidate. You can read all about it here....
Date: 06/05/2009
Utilizing Virtualization and boot-from-vhd for making a dual-boot laptop
I received my brand new Dell Latitude E4300 laptop today and I wanted to make sure i could boot both...
Date: 06/01/2009
New features in VMM 2008 R2
In line with the Rapid Provisioning feature that i mentioned in my previous blog post, Vishwa, a PM...
Date: 05/11/2009
Rapid Provisioning in VMM 2008 R2 using the UseLocalVirtualHardDisks and SkipInstallVirtualizationGuestServices flags
At MMS 2009, our team announced a new feature of VMM 2008 R2 called Rapid Provisioning. This feature...
Date: 05/07/2009
Using the VMM Self Service Portal from a Win7 computer
We have seen a lot of cases of customers trying to view the Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service...
Date: 04/04/2009
VMM 2008 R2 beta is now released
The much anticipated VMM 2008 R2 beta is now released. You can go to https://connect.microsoft.com/...
Date: 03/16/2009
How to detect if your hardware can run Hyper-V
The Virtualization Detect (DetectVp.EXE) tool is the logo test for checking if the system meets the...
Date: 02/16/2009
Issues with adding a host to VMM when the computer has more than 16 processors
It has come to our attention that trying to add a computer with more than 16 processors (for example...
Date: 02/09/2009
How to enable server-optimized garbage collector for VMM
If your VMM implementation has over 150 hosts, we strongly recommended that you enable...
Date: 02/04/2009
SCVMM 2008 Releases Management Pack Update
We have been getting a lot of excitement and questions about the reports for the VMM 2008 MP. With...
Date: 01/28/2009
Trying to add Windows Server 2008 R2 as a host to VMM 2008?
we have several customers that tried to add a Windows Server 2008 R2 as a host in VMM 2008. Our team...
Date: 01/25/2009
Running the Virtual Machine Manager server component inside a Virtual Machine
Running VMM inside a Virtual Machine is a fully supported way of running VMM. Our team tests this...
Date: 01/21/2009
Azman permissions for VMM-managed Hyper-V hosts
When VMM starts managing a hyper-v host, it takes full control of the Azman XML file that contains...
Date: 01/12/2009
Getting an error when trying to connect to a VM using the Virtual Machine Connection tool
If you are trying to connect to a Virtual Machine using VMConnect.exe (a Hyper-V tool), you might...
Date: 12/15/2008