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Monitoring your private cloud using VMM 2012 and Operations Manager 2012
If you haven’t been following the Cloud OS video series over on our Building Clouds blog, it’s a collection of videos that help you understand the technology, deployment, and management of the Cloud OS...
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IaaS Usage and Service Reporting using OpsMgr 2012 and VMM 2012 R2 and...
Anders Ravnholt has a new article that describes how to deploy usage metering & reporting in System Center 2012 R2 & Windows Azure Pack for IaaS:Following up Brad Anderson & Srikanth’s blog...
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Working Through an Unsupported Cluster Configuration Scenario in Virtual...
~ Chuck Timon | Senior Support Escalation EngineerThe insidious and not very clear virtual machine status Unsupported Cluster Configuration has been the bane of many a System Center Virtual Machine...
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Support Tip: Imported VMs do not appear in the SCVMM 2012 SP1 Management Console
~ John Behneman| Senior Support Escalation EngineerHello everyone, John Behneman here again, this time with a tip on an issue I saw recently in Virtual Machine Manager.What happened was a user deployed...
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Whitepaper: Hybrid Clouds with NVGRE.
Network Virtualization provides a critical component for managing the Cloud OS. It is a key enabler for multi-tenancy, and an important factor to succeeding with software-defined datacenters. Network...
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Here’s a script for VMM 2012 that helps you create logical networks, VM...
~ Alvin Morales | Lab EngineerHi Everyone, my name is Alvin Morales and I want to share a script that can help you create networks in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager Service Pack 1 (SCVMM...
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KB: The VMMService service crashes after you add an ESX or ESXi cluster
After you add an ESX or ESXi cluster to Microsoft System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM 2012), the VMMService service crashes. Additionally, the following error is logged in the VMM debug...
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How to configure VMM 2012 and OpsMgr 2012 for IaaS usage and metering
Microsoft’s Anders Ravnholt just posted his how-to on configuring Virtual Machine Manager 2012 and Operations Manager 2012 for IaaS usage and reporting:In the previous blog post (here) I explained how...
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Would you like to influence the future of Cloud Computing at Microsoft?...
Would you like to influence the future of Cloud Computing? Are you an IT pro whose job is all about creating and managing virtual machines, storage, networking and automation at the virtualized level?...
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How to perform a P2V in a SCVMM 2012 R2 environment
~ Mike Briggs | Supportability Program ManagerPer the Release Notes for Virtual Machine Manager in System Center 2012 R2, the previous P2V functionality has been removed. The diagram below outlines the...
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Announcing Paid Preview of Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager
In August, Brad Anderson, as part of his Transform the Datacenter blog series, covered Microsoft's Cloud Integrated Disaster Recovery Solution: Hyper-V Recovery Manager. Last week we announced GA for...
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New VMM 2012 fixes: Update Rollup 4 for System Center 2012 Service Pack 1
This article describes the issues that are fixed in Update Rollup 4 for Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1). Additionally, this article contains the installation instructions for Update...
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HOTFIX: Update Rollup 7 for System Center 2012
This article describes the issues that are fixed in Update Rollup 7 for Microsoft System Center 2012. Additionally, this article contains the installation instructions for Update Rollup 7 for System...
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Application Management - Clustering SQL Guest Instances in System Center 2012 R2
With the preview release of System Center 2012 R2 there are a few additions to VMM 2012 that make clustering with Windows Failover Clustering in guest VMs significantly easier. Microsoft’s Kurt Scherer...
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KB: "Unsupported VM Configuration" status on VMware virtual machine in System...
A virtual machine in Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager shows a status of "Unsupported VM Configuration." When you view the properties, the General tab displays the last refresh...
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Using the Service Models Web Platform Installer Gallery
~ Stephen Baron | Program ManagerThe Service Models Web Platform Installer Gallery has been updated to include a number of samples which are compatible with the RTM versions of the Windows Azure Pack...
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Virtual Hard Disk Requirements of Windows Azure Pack Gallery Items
~ Stephen Baron | Program ManagerWindows Azure Pack introduces Virtual Machine Role gallery items which enable users to deploy and configure workloads such as SQL Server, SharePoint or a LAMP stack. We...
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Leveraging IaaS and PaaS with Windows Azure Pack and System Center 2012 R2
~ Stephen Baron | Program ManagerWindows Azure Pack and System Center 2012 R2 expose Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) capabilities via features such as VM Clouds...
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Lync Server 2013 Service Templates for Virtual Machine Manager now available
This set of example System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM 2012) service template provides the necessary components to deploy Lync Server 2013. Please see the following post on the Building...
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Logical Switch deployment with Virtual Network Adapters for host management...
~ Karthikeyan Nenmeli Ravichandran| SDETIn data center deployments, a highly popular form of deployment is to use virtual network adapters (vNics) for host management. In this scenario, multiple...
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