hi everyone, i am just writing to let you know that I will be MMS 2010 (http://www.mms-2010.com/public/home.aspx) in Las Vegas next month. If any of you plan on attending, you will likely find me near the VMM booth. If you are super excited to be using VMM, stop by and you might also score a free…
Fixing switch port leaks in VMM
hi everyone, it has become apparent that VMM 2008 R2 has switch port leaks when performing checkpointing operations through VMM (either through the PowerShell interface, through Visual Studio Lab Manager, through the self-service portal, or through the VMM Administrator Console) This is a known issue that we will potentially address in an upcoming QFE. For…
VMM Administrator Console taking too much time to load (because of PRO)
If you have enabled the PRO integration with operations manager in your VMM environment, then this blog post might be for you. If your VMM Administrator Console is taking too long to load and the memory footprint of the vmmadmin.exe is too large (i.e. the vmmadmin.exe is taking up too much RAM), then it is…
How to fix slow offline P2V times in VMM b/c of duplex switches
if you are experiencing a slow offline P2V time due to a network that has 100mb full duplex enabled on the switch end, here is the process you can follow to make the data transfer a lot faster. This process will modify the WIM image used for P2V and modify the type of networking drivers being…
Usage of Distributed Switches in VMM
If you are using VMM to manage a VMware vSphere environment and started using some of the new advanced features of VMware like VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch, you will notice that VMM does not support them (at least not yet). Customers that want to manage their VMware environments with VMM should only use Standard Switches…
Error 800704DD happening during a LAN migration/deployment of a VM or during a new virtual machine creation
if you are using VMM and have experienced error 0x800704DD during either a new virtual machine creation (new-vm, v2v, or p2v) or during a virtual machine migration over the network (also known as a LAN migration using BITS), then this blog post is for you. The actual exception code caused in this case is listed below for…
Selecting 3 virtual processors in Hyper-V will crash the VMM Administrator Console
It is a known issue in Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 that if you select 3 Virtual CPU (Processors) for a Virtual Machine in Hyper-v, the VMM Administrator Console will crash and terminate immediately when you try to view the properties of that Virtual Machine. The workaround is to only select 1, 2, or 4 virtual…
The VMM 2008 R2 VHD is now available for download
if you are like me and you like to try software first before you buy them, then the VMM 2008 R2 VHD is one of the fastest and easiest methods of deploying VMM in your virtualized environment. This VHD contains the evaluation version of VMM. You can find the VHD and instructions for deploying it…
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 book
hey everyone, I have some great news. The FIRST System Center Virtual Machine Manager book is now available at major book retailers like Amazon.com. This book was primarily written by Hector Linares and myself, with Cheng Wei being a contributing author. The book covers VMM 2008 R2 and all its new and existing features. You…
Issues when trying to add a single-node cluster under management in VMM
A few folks have been experiencing errors and long delays in adding a single-node (i.e. a 1 node cluster) cluster under management in Virtual Machine Manager. This issue stems from the fact that VMM has an overcommitted property for each cluster. By default, a single-node cluster will always be overcommitted since any failure in that…