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KB: Assigning NetApp Storage to a Hyper-V Cluster fails with Error 26184 in...
Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where an Operations Manager AD Replication Monitor generates an "Invalid Script Parameter Configuration" error...
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Support Tip: Connecting to a VM running on a VMware cluster from VMM 2012...
Hi folks, this is Vladimir from the VMM team and today I want to discuss an issue with System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM 2012) and VMware vCenter 4.1 that I saw few weeks ago. The summary...
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Managing your cluster with SCVMM 2012’s Dynamic Optimization (DO)
I’m Hilton Lange, Software Development Engineer on the VMM team, and I’d love to share with you my personal favorite feature in VMM 2012. We’ve introduced the ability to constantly monitor and...
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Reducing your power consumption with SCVMM 2012 and Power Optimization (PO)
I’m Hilton Lange, Software Development Engineer in the VMM 2012 team. I’d like to continue my previous article about Dynamic Optimization (DO) by telling you about its closely related sister feature,...
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Custom Placement Rules and Availability Sets in SCVMM 2012 SP1
I’m Hilton Lange, a Software Development Engineer on the VMM team. I want to conclude my series of placement blogs by talking about the custom rules that you can configure on your VMM server to give...
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Solution: SCVMM 2008 P2V conversion fails with Error 2927 (0x8033801A)
When performing a Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) conversion to a clustered host with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, it may fail with the following error: Error 2927 A Hardware Management error...
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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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Fixing ‘Unsupported Cluster Configuration’ status caused by virtual network...
Here’s a great post on how to fix an ‘Unsupported Cluster Configuration’ status when it’s caused by a configuration issue with the virtual networks. I found this one when I was looking through some of...
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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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What does 'over-committed' status really mean?
One of the top questions that I keep hearing from our customers is to explain the ‘over-committed’ status and why we sometimes display this status. An example of when this status might be displayed is...
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Fix: System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Maintenance mode does not...
You put a failover cluster node into Maintenance mode by using the console in Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2, then when you restart the node you find that the groups fail back...
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Issues with migrating a Virtual Machine from one cluster to another
Here's a great post our very own Michael Michael posted today that talks about an issue you may run into when using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 trying to migrate a virtual machine from...
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New KB: Migrating a System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 VM from one...
SymptomsIf you have two Hyper-V failover clusters managed by System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2, it is possible that you can't complete a LAN migration of a Virtual Machine (VM) from one of...
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New KB: Using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 to delete a VM on...
Just a quick FYI on a new SCVMM 2008 R2 Knowledge Base article we published today:=====SymptomsYou are using Hyper-V and a Failover Cluster and your Virtual Machines (VMs) share the same Clustered LUN...
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How to determine if a cluster is over-committed in System Center Virtual...
Just a heads up on a new KB article we published on how to determine if a cluster is over-committed in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. If you do any kind of admin work with System Center...
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Fix: GPT pass-through disks provided from Serial attached SCSI (SAS) are not...
Just an FYI on a new System Center Virtual Machine Manager Knowledge Base article we published this morning:=====SummaryWhen you attach a GPT pass-through disk provided from SAS storage (Serial...
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SCVMM 2012- Creating a Highly Available VMM Server
Hi, I’m Kerim Hanif and and I work as a Program Manager on the SCVMM team. Today I am going to talk about the High Available VMM server (HA VMM) feature in SCVMM 2012 Beta. During the evolution of...
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How to create Failover Clusters with SCVMM 2012
Here’s a heads up on yet another cool article I found over on the TechNet Wiki today regarding System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012. This is another one written by Microsoft Partner Kristian Nese...
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How to add a new or rebuilt cluster node to SCVMM 2008
If you are adding a new node to an existing cluster that is being managed by System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM), or if you had to rebuild a node of a cluster and need to add it back,...
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