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Updated Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides available
The Infrastructure Planning and Design team has released two updated virtualization guides: Windows Server Virtualization and System Center Virtual Machine Manager These guides, updated to reflect the...
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Troubleshooting and data gathering for SCVMM
I was working with the System Center Virtual Machine Manager support team a few months back looking for a way that we could help reduce the amount of time it takes to resolve a case as well as reduce...
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Solution: You may be unable to create Virtual Machines after re-installing...
Here’s a good tip in case you ever want to reinstall System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM). If you use the "Retain Data" option you will likely be unable to create Virtual Machines if the same...
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TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Virtualization Best Practices for Exchange Server
Virtualizing business critical applications delivers significant benefits, including cost savings, enhanced business continuity, and an agile and efficient management solution. In this webcast, we...
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Two new Virtual Machine Manager KB articles for the week ending 11/7
We published two new knowledge base articles for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 last week. The first discusses some steps that will help you troubleshoot a status of "Not Responding" that...
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Issues adding a single node cluster into management by VMM
Recently we have seen an issue where a few customers have been experiencing errors and long delays in adding a single-node cluster (i.e. a 1 node cluster) under management in Virtual Machine Manager....
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Directions for using the SCVMM MPS Reporting tool
I noticed this weekend that the directions for the SCVMM MPS Reports utility are incomplete. The only instructions that come with the utility are the ones on the download site that tell you how to...
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How to move the SCVMM database to another server
You may find yourself in the position of needing to move the SCVMM database from one server to another for various reasons. For instance, this situation can occur when moving from local to remote SQL...
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Various issues when trying to manage a Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V host...
Have you ever tried managing a Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V host using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (the RTM version, not the R2 version) but kept running into issues that prevented it...
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System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 SP1 Available Now!
On behalf of the SCVMM product team and I am proud to announce the availability of SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1 RTM. Support for new features of Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1Dynamic Memory: Windows Server 2008 R2...
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Solution: Unable to add a managed host in SCVMM 2008, Error 2927 (0x8033809d)
Adding a managed host in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 may fail with the following error messages: From the VMM admin console: Error (2927) A Hardware Management error has occurred trying...
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TechNet Webcast: Using Windows PowerShell with Hyper-V and Virtual Machine...
On Wednesday, May 27 we’ll be hosting a 90 minute webcast on using Windows PowerShell with Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager so mark your calendars now. If you’ve ever wanted to...
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Should SCVMM live inside a VM or on a physical server?
"Where should I install VMM, on a physical server or inside a VM and then add that same physical server as a managed host?" This is a common question from our customers regarding the placement of...
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P2V using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 may fail with error 3154...
When you perform a physical to virtual (P2V) conversion using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, the P2V job may fail with the following error:Error (3154) An internal error has occurred...
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SCVMM Self-Service Portal What, Why, and How; A TechTalk Session in TechEd 2009
If you’ve ever wanted to learn a little bit more about the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Self-Service Portal then you’ll want to check out this cool video recorded by John Baker and Yung...
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Two new SCVMM Knowledge Base articles for the week ending 05/30/2009
We had two new System Center Virtual Machine Manager Knowledge Base articles last week. The first is about a perimeter host communication issue and the second is about an issue you may run into doing...
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VMMCA 2008 Update 1 - Your first stop when troubleshooting SCVMM 2008 RTM
Greetings,There are many occasions on the public forums where a customer is struggling with a commonly known issue on VMM 2008 RTM. For those commonly known issues we have bundled those up into a tool...
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System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 - Quick Storage Migration
Just a heads up on a new blog post by Edwin Yuen, Senior Technical Product Manager at Microsoft's Integrated Virtualization team. In this post he talks about another type of migration being added to...
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TechNet Webcast: Saving IT Costs with Windows Server 2008 R2 and...
Just an FYI that at 11:00am Pacific time on Thursday, July 23, 2009, we’ll be hosting a webcast exploring how Windows Server 2008 R2 saves IT costs by using Virtualization technologies to consolidate...
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Adding an EMC Symmetrix GEO Cluster to SCVMM 2008 may fail with Error 1612
When adding a Windows Server 2008 / EMC Symmetrix Cluster (Geo-cluster) as a host to SCVMM 2008, you may get the following error: Code: 1612Problem: The connection to the Virtual Machine Manager server...
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