Bare Metal Host provisioning of an IBM x3650 M4 using VMM 2012
Can anyone verify whether they have successfully bare metal provisioned an IBM x3650 M4 (7915) host using VMM 2012??I have managed to deliver the M2 and M3 models successfully, but have gotten hold of...
View ArticleVisual studio 2012 Setting Lab Environments " Verify that the test controller...
I am using Team foundation server 2012. I am having this error when trying to add a machine to the test controller:Verify that the test controller is available. Could not connect to the following test...
View ArticleReally confused about networking with VMM 2012 SP1
I'm setting up a VMM 2012 SP1 "private cloud" in my lab. I have a Dell C6220 with a total of 5 physical hosts. 1 host is the VMM 2012 Sp1 box and the other 4 are Hyper-V hosts. Each of the Hyper-V...
View ArticleVMM Admins - How are you managing your cloud environments?
I have been struggling with this task for months since my boss gave it to me, so I'd like to hear from the rest of you SCVMM 2012 admins. Brief back story, we have used SCVMM 2012 since RC for the...
View ArticleUpdates using SCVMM or SCCM?
I am trying to understand the best method for patching my host servers. I have in place a single server with WSUS, SCCM 2012 SP1 , and SCVMM 2012 SP1 installed. This manages my Hyper-V infrastructure....
View ArticleEvery host status is Needs Attention
Last night we had to replace the controller array battery in our SCVMM 2012 server. After we powered it back up, all our hosts are showing Needs Attention status. Can't seem to see that anything's...
View ArticleVMM2012 - searching AD - can only see small subset of computer accounts
Hi. We're using VMM 2012 SP1 (HA VMM configuration), and I wanted to add a library server when I found out that VMM only sees couple domain-joined computers.Those computers that VMM can see all reside...
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Optimize Hosts doesn't seem to work
I have a two node WS2008R2 SP1 Hyper-V cluster, VMM 2012 SP1 UR2 is used for managing the environment.From what I've read I could always Optimize Hosts even if Dynamic Optimization is not configured on...
View ArticleMulti-tenant SCVMM 2012 SP1 console
Hi there,I'm trying to publish the SCVMM 2012 SP1 console on a Citrix server in order to give access to multiple SCVMM servers.The citrix box (ie the client) is not member of the same SCVMM/Hyper-v...
View ArticleSetting gateway IP in IP pool not in the subnet
Hi,I am working on creating logical networks in SCVMM 2012 SP1. However, when I create an IP pool (E.g. xxx.xxx.xxx.89 - xxx.xxx.xxx.96) or a /29 block, my gateway server is not within this block of IP...
View ArticleProvide private, internal network for SSR
I'm in the process of building a test lab for our development team using SCVMM 2012 SP1 and App Controller. Templates, user role, an external switch which is tied to our development network/VLAN were...
View ArticleExpanding a dynamically expanding VHD HELP
Hi Guys,My Exchange server data drive which is a VHD (Dynamically Expanding) has run out of space :-( I have expanded the drive to get us up and running again, but when I look in disk managment the...
View ArticleCreating a VM template with more than one VHDX
Hi,I have created a VM template of a server on my Hyper-V environment. The VM has 3 expanding VHDx disks.However, the template only captures 1 disk (the disk with the OS). How do I create a template...
View ArticleInstalling VMM Agent ends prematurely
Hi I am new to SCVMM.We are using SCVMM 2012.I tried to install scvmm 2012 agent on DMZ windows server 2008 R2 locally.But at the end of the installation, I got an error as below. But WinRM service is...
View ArticleSC VMM 2012 Not showing performance counters
In SCVMM there is no data in "Overview" CPU, memory, ... all data is 0!In VMs pane under CPU Average I can see same data on few old VMs.This data does not change, so I guess this was working at the...
View ArticleIssue when trying to live migrate a virtual machine with vmm 2012 sp1 and...
I'm trying to migrate some virtual machines from a 3-node windows 2012 cluster with hyper-v to a standalone windows 2012 server. We are using VMM 2012 SP1. When we move the machines from the standalone...
View ArticleSCVMM 2012 SP1 - several VM's disappear and after a while shows back for few...
hi all,VM's disappear from LAB hosts. those were cloned(or)imported from PROD (V2V) (and also a part of the same VMM).I didn't made those clones\imports so I'm not sure, but maybe the GUID's are the...
View ArticleSCVMM QOS on Logical Switch
Hi,I have configured all the hosts of my cluster to use LogicalSwitch and assign QOS to it. So far it working well using weigth but when I try to assign a native port profile with min/max Bps I got an...
View ArticleUnsupported VM Configuration
Having fought hard with the problem of failover clustering VMs with Pass through disks I now have 2 VM's, both with PT disks working perfectly on a 2 node cluster. I created and configured these...
View ArticleIsolated Network - No IP Address
Hi,Just starting with SCVMM Sp1. Undertaking a Proof on Concept to support test environments. Each will be seperated using network isolation.Have configured SCVMM Sp1 on two physical host servers...
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