System Center Virtual Machine Manager

Virtual Machine Manager 2012 , Networking and Trailing Spaces

I recently ran into a issue where I was unable to set the network on a virtual machine. There was a working logical network , VM that spanned the Hyper-V cluster and everything was working For the purpose of reproduction I called the “broken...

Published 05-19-2012 17:27 by Flemming Riis

Error installing App Controller 2012 (user error)

Deploying a fresh set of 2012 Applications for a demo later this week I managed to “break” the unbreakable App Controller installer. Install Add Credentials and Service Port Select Certificate Select SQL Server and Boom Error A network-related...

Published 03-18-2012 23:02 by Flemming Riis

Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Add Node to running cluster

In my little test lab I had to add another node for testing purpose. Head into Virtual Machine Manager 2012 and add Hyper-V Host and Clusters Enter the server you want to add to the cluster After AD Validation select the server...

Published 03-10-2012 19:55 by Flemming Riis

Settting LimitCPUForMigration Virtual Machine Manager 2012

In my test environment I ran into a issue due to different cpu types. So we get a 10709 that we are unable to migrate due to different processor features. This can be fixed by setting “Allow migration to a virtual machine host with a different...

Published 03-08-2012 22:26 by Flemming Riis

Unable to connect to Virtual Machine Manager : ID 2607 The SQL Server account does not have permission

to access Active Directory Domain Servers I ran into this problem today where I was unable to connect with the domain administrator (test environment) , I was able to use a different account , the only change being made was that the Windows Domain...

Published 02-28-2012 23:16 by Flemming Riis

Getting started with Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Beta 2 (VMM Clustering)

One of my new favorite features of Virtual Machine Manager 2012 is the ability to cluster the Virtual Machine Manager Server and Libray so a single host failure wont impact the ability for VMM to function , this also make improves of the uptime at patch...

Published 07-23-2011 0:28 by Flemming Riis

Getting started with Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Beta 2 (Monitoring)

Microsoft have provided updated management packs for Operations Manager and Virtual Machine Manager 2012 , this intro will cover the basics to get running and start monitoring of the Virtual Machine Manager , I will follow up with...

Published 07-12-2011 21:50 by Flemming Riis

Getting started with Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Beta 2 (Adding Hosts)

After install of the Virtual Machine Manager we need to add hosts to the fabric. We are adding hosts that are running in the same domain , a later post will show provisioning of bare metal servers to running Hyper-V hosts To add hosts to the Virtuel...

Published 06-15-2011 23:33 by Flemming Riis

Getting started with Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Beta 2 (Install)

To get started testing VMM2012 beta there are two options , Microsoft have provided a full vhd almost ready to run , or you can install the bits yourself , this small getting started guide will follow a manual install process but below is link...

Published 06-13-2011 0:09 by Flemming Riis