When VMM starts managing a hyper-v host, it takes full control of the Azman XML file that contains the permissions for Hyper-V. In fact, VMM will create a new copy of the file in a separate directory location and point hyper-v to that file (the file name is HyperVAuthStore.xml and is located inside the installation…
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Getting an incorrect SAN migration option during clone-vm in VMM
If you have a Failover Cluster managed by VMM 2008, it is possible that you will get a placement page similar to the one below if you try to clone a Highly Available Virtual Machine that is part of the cluster. The placement page in the new-vm wizard below incorrectly states that the transfer type will…
Highly Available Virtual Networks and VMM
We had a few customers ask us to clarify high availability (HA) with regards to Virtual Networks (VN). In the VMM/Clustering case, there are a few considerations around virtual networks: A VN to be considered HA has to have the same exact name in all nodes of the cluster (Virtual Network names are case-sensitive), the…
How to upgrade between the different SKUs of VMM 2008
Now that VMM 2008 has RTM’ed, a lot of folks are asking what are the upgrade paths between the various SKUs of VMM. I wanted to list two upgrade paths here and the associated process around this. Upgrade Paths supported by this method when the build number of VMM is the same: VMM 2008 Evaluation…
Virtual Machine Manager 2008 is now complete
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…
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…