Calling All Wise Men! System Center Gurus Needed! Apply Within! No One Turned...
Calling all wise men!Join us and rejoice! The time for giving is upon us again!A time for family (community) and gifts of knowledge!Why not wrap up a little something extra special this year.After all,...
View ArticleAdvice on ejecting a cluster
Hello,We have two clusters (of 3 hosts each) in our business. Each cluster is at a different data center (IE Datacenter A and Datacenter B). Datacenter B is being shutdown we are not moving the hosts...
View ArticleSCVMM losing connection to cluster nodes
Hey guys'n girls, I hope this is the right forum for this question. I already opened a ticket at MS support as well because it's impacting our production environment indirectly, but even after a week...
View ArticleStorage migration for virtual machine fails with general access denied error
Hello all,I have a annoying problem with storage migration. Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V and SCVMM 2012 R2, SAN storage, CSV volumes. Error (12700) VMM cannot complete the host operation on the...
View ArticleSupports SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V 3.0 (Windows Server 2012)?
We have a SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1. We have installed a Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate Datacenter with Hyper-V role active. We have added the host to SCVMM but the host status is "needs attention"...
View ArticleHow to show Dynamic Optimization in action - a dummies guide.
I am new to HyperV 2012 R2 and SCVMM.Looking for a recipe that will allow me to cause VMs to live migrate between hosts in a cluster, via the SCVMM DO feature. I have a 3 host cluster with...
View ArticleHow to manually calculate total host memory on SCVVM 2008R2
I'm looking for a formula to calculate the total memory amount used on a host. When I add all allocated memory from the VM's, add the reserved host memory and add 32MB per VM it's still not enough to...
View ArticleEnabling Remote Desktop vis VM Template
Hello All................When a VM is deployed via VM Template, Remote Desktop is always disabled by default. Is it possible to configure a VM Template in a way that whenever a VM is created using...
View ArticleUnable to connect to the VMM database because of a general database failure....
Hello Having trouble with a user logging into VMM console.Company renamed our Windows AD user id's. since then a user cannot log into the VMM console.Unable to connect to the VMM database because of a...
View ArticleBig data/Database performance with VHD/VHDX storage
Dears,I need to build a virtual database server (Solaris) on Windows 2012 R2 hyper-v , and im concerning about the database performance since i have to use VHD/VHDx storage hosted on a SAN storage , i...
View ArticleA New Year, a New Challenge! Become the FIRST System Center Guru of 2015!
Happy New Year!"Guru 2014" is so last year!The real glory is to be the first Guru of 2015! :DThe birth of a new year, and a new hero?Or the stamp of authority from long established Guru leaders?The...
View ArticleVirtualizing network on a single host with VMM
I wonder, is it even possible to do a full Network virtualization with VMM on a single Hyper-V host? I would like to get as much benefit as possible from VMM in my LAB where I run one host for AD and...
View ArticleInvoke-SCScript in Action Add-In | Unknown Error
Hi, I am creating an add-in for the virtual machine manager that will backup the selected VM(s) on the host. I've come so far, but my script is not working. I allways get the error message box.What am...
View ArticleHyperV Virtual NIC not Visable on SCVMM
HI I have installed Hyper V On One of the HP G7 hardware , and SCVMM is on G6 Hardware,After configuring Hyper V Role, I have teamed the 4 NIC to One Teaming and created multiple VnNIC by using below...
View ArticleVMM 2012 R2 user authentication from alternative domain
I have a problem which is probably not very common which I'm hoping someone might be able to advise on. Unfortunately the relationship between our lab and the corporate AD has made this setup quite...
View ArticleHyperV Virtual NIC not Visable on SCVMM
HI I have installed Hyper V On One of the HP G7 hardware , and SCVMM is on G6 Hardware,After configuring Hyper V Role, I have teamed the 4 NIC to One Teaming and created multiple VnNIC by using below...
View ArticleVMM Bandwidth Utilization
hi,anyone has any idea on how much network bandwidth use and require by VMM especially managing different branch environment from central location?Please advice ThanksLai (My blog:- http://www.ms4u.info)
View ArticleHighly available VMM installation issue
Hi,I am upgrading the highly avaiable VMM 2012 SP1 to VMM 2012 R2. On starting the installation of VMM management server on 1st node, it gives the message "Highly available VMM is already installed....
View ArticleVM rebooting before GUIRunOnce has finished
I have a SCVMM 2012 R2 U4, and when I deploy a 2012 R2 gen 2 guest with an answer file to do 1 autologon, my GUIRunOnce command runs and starts to install my application but before it is finished the...
View ArticleChanged SCVMM Service Accounts - Can't log in
I uninstalled (retained settings) SCVMM and re-installed SCVMM under a different domain level service account. Everything is working and SCVMM is up and running again. The only issue I am experiencing...
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