43 days ago by Michel Lüscher

Wird ein Hyper-V Cluster um einen weiteren Cluster Nodes erweitert, so lässt sich dieser sehr einfach mittels System Center Virtual Machine Manager in einen bestehenden Cluster integrieren. Einzige Bedinung, der neue Hyper-V Host muss bereits durch VMM verwaltet werden, damit dieser im “Add Cluster ...

43 days ago by MrHinsh

I have been working with one of my colleagues, Bryon, over the holidays in order to install both TFS and Lab management at a customer. Now that customer has some awesome hardware, but insisted on a physical TFS server. The DL320 with 18 cores, 42GB RAM and 2TB of storage make a pretty fast TFS serve ...

45 days ago by Michel Lüscher

Eigentlich eine einfache Frage, doch bei vielen Virtual Machines kann die Antwort unter Umstände doch noch einige “Schwierigkeiten” bereiten. Dass es entscheidend ist aktuelle Treiber, oder eben Integration Services einzusetzen sollte jedem einleuchten. Gerade seit der Einführung von Dynamic Memory ...

46 days ago by markus

In diesem Blogpost werde ich die Arbeit mit den neuen Custom Properties im SCVMM 2012 vorstellen. In Vergangenheit gab es eine Reihe von vordefinierten Custom Properties (1-10). Mit SCVMM 2012 gibt es beliebige Erweiterungsfelder, die als Objekt abgebildet sind und an Virtuellen Maschinen, Hosts, Cl ...

51 days ago by VirtuallyAware

Every once in a while I see something in a product that just doesn’t seem right. I have used SCVMM every day for years but somehow overlooked this this minor bug that caught my eye the other day. In the screen shot below I am viewing all VMs sorted by CPU usage. As you can see there are some VMs tha ...

52 days ago by VirtuallyAware

As the sequel to my previous article " Overcoming Hyper-V Live Migration limitations with PowerShell cmdlets,” here are some creative ways to exploit the SCVMM PowerShell cmdlet to make Hyper-V Live Migrations more friendly. “ For small IT shops, PowerShell cmdlets improve on Hyper-V Live Migration ...

64 days ago by itpadla

В SCVMM 2008 2008 R2 есть очень странная ошибка при создании виртуальной машины из шаблона, которая выглядит так: Error (12700) VMM cannot complete the Hyper-V operation on the bg-virt02.kp.kpp.com.ua server because of the error: ‘vr-win7video1′ failed to add device ‘Microsoft Virtual Floppy Disk’. ...

66 days ago by Kevin Greene

Nice to see the email last night arrive into my inbox telling me that I had won the November competition for the Microsoft System Center Private Cloud Community Evaluation Program (CEP) as a result of my blog posts on 'Cloud Management with System Center'. There were two aspects of the prize - a bra ...

70 days ago by Steve Beaumont

I'm not exactly re-inventing the wheel here as it's the same process for Virtual Machine Manager 2012 as it was for 2008 R2, but I thought I'd post about it anyway. This isn't a common thing to need to do, but I found myself in the position today where I wanted to move the database that was on a loc ...

74 days ago by Marcel van den Berg

I had an issue with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 today. I had been working for months and today I was not able to start it. The error I got was: VMM is unable to perform this operation without a connection to a Virtual Machine Manager server. (Error ID: 1615) I started the console o ...