I am being asked this more frequently. How can you manage VMware environments in System Centre Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)? Check out this wiki on the subject : http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/how-to-manage-a-vmware-infrastructure-or-vmware-vsphere-in-system-center-virtual-machine-manager-sc-vmm.aspx The key points from this wiki are: SCVMM 2008 R2 can manage vSphere 2.x and vSphere 3.x with comparable functionality. SCVMM 2008 R2 can manage vSphere…
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Virtualisation shootout, the market has choices and moving to IaaS
Paul Venezia over at Infoworld wrote an article called “Virtualization shoot-out: Citrix, Microsoft, Red Hat, and VMware”. He obviously put a lot of thought and effort into the shoot-out. To be fair to the guy, he tries to be honest and fair in his assessments. What is nice to see is that Hyper-v stands up…
SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1 RTM
The SP1 version of SCVMM 2008 R2 has shipped. http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/en/us/virtual-machine-manager.aspx There are some great reasons to go with SP1 for SCVMM 2008 R2 (detailed below). Its not a standalone service pack though so dont get put off by the full installation wizard. It will detect and upgrade your SCVMM instance. As with all upgrades, back-up…
VMM 2012 : How to deploy an application as a Service
As you know the System Centre Virtual Machine Manager 2012 is in beta and available right now. We have a .NET Pet Shop application that you can deploy that shows what SCVMM 2012 can offer. Check out Michael Michael’s blog on how to spin the whole thing up. The .NET Pet Shop : http://blogs.technet.com/b/m2/archive/2011/03/29/how-to-deploy-the-pet-shop-application-as-a-service-in-vmm.aspx
Hyper-V: Real world consolidation and optimisation
The Microsoft Management summit 2011 was held in March of this year. Putting aside all of the product news, the event provided a practical example of how Hyper-V can help optimise IT environments. Not only that, the process has been refined to further reduce the overall footprint. At the MMS event there are hundreds of…
SCOM 2007 R2 : Where are my reports?
So you have followed the SCOM 2007 R2 installation guides to the letter. You’ve installed SQL reporting services and installed the SCOM reporting feature. However, you just dont have any reports in SCOM. Check your event logs for the following error: Date: date Source: OpsMgr SDK Service Time: time Category: None Type: Error Event ID:…