The product i am working on, Virtual Machine Manager, has just released to manufacturing (RTM is the keyword we use for this). In the next few hours, you should be able to download an evaluation version of the software (it expires 180 days later) from www.microsoft.com\scvmm. If you want to learn more about the…
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Configuring SCVMM 2008’s PRO Feature with Ops Manager
hey all, Alan Goodman from the VMM Program Management team posted a very informative blog on the PRO feature of VMM.You can read it from http://blogs.technet.com/rakeshm/archive/2008/08/22/configuring-scvmm-2008-s-pro-feature-with-ops-manager.aspx
Opening the VMM Administrator Console results in error 1604
After installation, if you try to open the VMM administrator console and you get the error below, you can follow these steps to troubleshoot and fix the issue: You cannot access Virtual Machine Manager server <servername>. Contact the Virtual Machine Manager administrator to verify that your account is a member of a valid user role and…
How to configure the integration between VMM and OpsMgr Part II
I know that some folks continue to have trouble getting the integration between VMM and OpsMgr to work. If you are getting this error, this post is for you. “VMM service does not have the necessary privileges to access the Operations Manager SDK service on <servername>…………ID: 11804” First, i would ask that you follow the…
Refresh Library failing
If you are using Virtual Machine Manager 2008 beta and the refresh library job is failing with the following error Error (2912)An internal error has occurred trying to contact an agent on the <SERVERNAME> server. (The inherited access control list (ACL) or access control entry (ACE) could not be built (0x8007053C)) then you need to remove…
How to get the BIOS GUID from a Hyper-V VM
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…
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