Hi all, the below vbscript (save as sample.vbs and execute using “cscript.exe sample.vbs”), will give you a list of all VMs in a hyper-v system as well as their respective BIOS GUIDs. This can help in troubleshooting VMM 2008 beta for the cases where more than 1 VM on the same hyper-v host is having…
Ports being utilized by VMM 2008
Before our official documentation for VMM 2008 comes out, I wanted to outline for everyone all the ports that VMM 2008 RTM will use (almost all of these are the same for beta). Some of these ports are configurable during VMM setup – for those ports, I listed the default option. SQL ports required…
Hyper-V is now RTM
Hyper-V is now RTM and you should be able to find it on Microsoft Download Center shortly. This is a great release and the cornerstone for Microsoft’s virtualization efforts. If you are wondering how VMM 2008 beta and Hyper-V will play together, read this blog post by Rakesh. http://blogs.technet.com/rakeshm/archive/2008/06/26/hyper-v-is-released-and-what-that-means-for-scvmm-beta.aspx The press release for Hyper-V is…
How Virtual Machine Manager Administrator Console uses VirtualMachineViewer.exe
The VMM Administrator Console’s VirtualMachineViewer.exe and the VMM Self-Service Portal (SSP) both use a same codebase for connecting to Hyper-V virtual machines. With the enhancements made to Win2k8 and VistaSP1, we are able to leverage MSTSCAX to connect to virtual machines through the host. What this means is that instead of directly connecting to the…
Hyper-V RC1 and update for Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1
Hyper-V RC1 is readily available. You can find more details here: http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2008/05/20/hyper-v-rc1-release-available-on-microsoft-download-center.aspx. The link to the Microsoft Download Center is http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3ed582f0-f844-40ba-b692-230845af1149&displaylang=en. Virtual Server has also been updated and Win2k8 is now qualified as a quest and a host operating system. For more details, see http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a79bcf9b-59f7-480b-a4b8-fb56f42e3348&displaylang=en. This update for Microsoft Virtual Server R2 SP1 includes support…
Did you encounter an issue with VMM 2008 beta when you upgraded to Hyper-V RC1
A lot of you have been experiencing issues when you upgrade Hyper-V to RC1. I would like to reiterate that the VMM team knows about this and we apologize for the inconvenience. See this thread on technet forums for more details. http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3373834&SiteID=17
How to enable PRO with VMM
Last week I mentioned I was going to talk about how to enable PRO with VMM. PRO stands for Physical Resource Optimization. If you followed my steps from last week, your Operations Manager and VMM servers are configured to work together to provide monitoring and alerting within your virtualized environment. This also means that your…
How to configure the integration between VMM and OpsMgr
VMM teams up with OpsMgr to provide a comprehensive end-to-end services management through monitoring the health and performance of workloads all the way down to the application level. VMM and PRO (a feature of VMM that allows you to extend the services management and augment the available knowledge in the MPs to make recommendations or take…
What are the different ways virtual machines can be migrated using VMM 2008
A post on the VMM newsgroup today prompted me to explain the different ways that VMs can be migrated when using VMM 2008. From a VMM perspective, we have a few ways that we allow you to move a VM from one host to another. I listed them below in no particular order: -Using Hyper-V…
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 beta is out!
This is the release a lot of people have been waiting for. A beta of VMM that supports Hyper-V. The team has worked extremely hard over the last few months to get this ready for MMS (the Microsoft Management Summit that is happening right now in Vegas). Some of the key features that went into…