Virtual Machine Management
Managing Virtual & Physical Computers in the Datacenter and in the Cloud
If you have a Failover Cluster managed by VMM 2008, it is possible that you will get a placement...
Author: Michael Michael [Apprenda] Date: 12/11/2008
We had a few customers ask us to clarify high availability (HA) with regards to Virtual Networks...
Author: Michael Michael [Apprenda] Date: 11/10/2008
Now that VMM 2008 has RTM'ed, a lot of folks are asking what are the upgrade paths between the...
Author: Michael Michael [Apprenda] Date: 10/23/2008
The product i am working on, Virtual Machine Manager, has just released to manufacturing (RTM is the...
Author: Michael Michael [Apprenda] Date: 10/21/2008
Are you wondering when to use Hyper-V Server 2008? This product is a great choice for customers who...
Author: Michael Michael [Apprenda] Date: 10/01/2008
hey all, Alan Goodman from the VMM Program Management team posted a very informative blog on the PRO...
Author: Michael Michael [Apprenda] Date: 08/25/2008
After installation, if you try to open the VMM administrator console and you get the error below,...
Author: Michael Michael [Apprenda] Date: 07/21/2008
In some environments, VirtualMachineViewer and VMConnect always prompt for credentials. In order to...
Author: Michael Michael [Apprenda] Date: 07/17/2008
I know that some folks continue to have trouble getting the integration between VMM and OpsMgr to...
Author: Michael Michael [Apprenda] Date: 07/12/2008
If you are using Virtual Machine Manager 2008 beta and the refresh library job is failing with the...
Author: Michael Michael [Apprenda] Date: 07/09/2008
Hi all, the below vbscript (save as sample.vbs and execute using "cscript.exe sample.vbs"), will...
Author: Michael Michael [Apprenda] Date: 07/04/2008
Before our official documentation for VMM 2008 comes out, I wanted to outline for everyone all the...
Author: Michael Michael [Apprenda] Date: 07/01/2008
Hyper-V is now RTM and you should be able to find it on Microsoft Download Center shortly. This is a...
Author: Michael Michael [Apprenda] Date: 06/26/2008
The VMM Administrator Console's VirtualMachineViewer.exe and the VMM Self-Service Portal (SSP) both...
Author: Michael Michael [Apprenda] Date: 06/02/2008
Hyper-V RC1 is readily available. You can find more details here:...
Author: Michael Michael [Apprenda] Date: 05/27/2008
A lot of you have been experiencing issues when you upgrade Hyper-V to RC1. I would like to...
Author: Michael Michael [Apprenda] Date: 05/22/2008
Last week I mentioned I was going to talk about how to enable PRO with VMM. PRO stands for Physical...
Author: Michael Michael [Apprenda] Date: 05/22/2008
VMM teams up with OpsMgr to provide a comprehensive end-to-end services management through...
Author: Michael Michael [Apprenda] Date: 05/12/2008
A post on the VMM newsgroup today prompted me to explain the different ways that VMs can be migrated...
Author: Michael Michael [Apprenda] Date: 05/05/2008
This is the release a lot of people have been waiting for. A beta of VMM that supports Hyper-V. The...
Author: Michael Michael [Apprenda] Date: 04/29/2008
Hyper-V telling you that integration services are installed on Win2k8 VMs but mouse is still not working?
This probably means that you need to upgrade to RC0 Integration Services for Hyper-V. This is...
Author: Michael Michael [Apprenda] Date: 04/21/2008
This error is one of the most difficult to diagnose errors in a customer environment. If you are...
Author: Michael Michael [Apprenda] Date: 04/18/2008
DiskShadow.exe is a new tool that shipped with Windows Server 2008 and it allows you to create and...
Author: Michael Michael [Apprenda] Date: 04/17/2008
A lot of people have asked me how they can get the actual computer name or FQDN of a virtual machine...
Author: Michael Michael [Apprenda] Date: 04/16/2008
hi all, if you are passionate about virtualization or would like to be part of the new disruptive...
Author: Michael Michael [Apprenda] Date: 04/16/2008
hi everyone, thanks for visiting my blog. My name is Michael Michael and I am one of the architects...
Author: Michael Michael [Apprenda] Date: 04/16/2008