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Taking a closer look at the Virtual Machine Manager cluster overcommit algorithm
~ Hilton Lange | Software EngineerOne common question we get here on the support team for System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager is regarding the ‘over-committed’ status and why it might be...
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Troubleshooting System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager Object Locking Issues
Welcome back to the System Center: Virtual Machine Manager Engineering Blog. Lately, a few customers have called wanting to know why some jobs are failing in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager...
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Have a say on the future of System Center
The System Center leadership team is looking to hear from you on the challenges you face with your Management tools and where you would like to see us invest going forward.We put together a short...
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EMM Webcast with Brad Anderson & Michael Wallent
Just a quick reminder that tomorrow is episode 2 of the ongoing “Success with Enterprise Mobility” webcast series. This episode will focus on how to effectively integrate your existing Configuration...
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KB: Details of the cluster overcommit algorithm in System Center 2012 R2...
This new KB article describes the four approaches for the cluster overcommit algorithm in Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM 2012 R2). The goal of the VMM cluster overcommit...
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Setting up a Highly-Available VMM 2012 Environment
~ John PattersonThis article will guide you through the recommended way to setup and configure a typical, highly available (HA) System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) installation. Topics...
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KB: How to work with Hyper-V network virtualization and Hyper-V replicas in...
Microsoft Azure Site Recovery (ASR) is the recommended product for end-to-end Hyper-V replica management. This includes network management for replica virtual machines (VM) in a Microsoft System Center...
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Update Rollup 5 for System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager is now...
Today we released Update Rollup 5 for System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM 2012 R2 UR5). The KB article that documents the fixes and provides installation instructions is listed below but...
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MS15-017: Vulnerability in Virtual Machine Manager could allow elevation of...
As part of Update Tuesday, today we released MS15-017: Vulnerability in Virtual Machine Manager could allow elevation of privilege: February 10, 2015.This update resolves a vulnerability in Microsoft...
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Update Rollup 9 for System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager SP1 is now...
The article below describes the issues that are fixed in Update Rollup 9 for Microsoft System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager Service Pack 1 (VMM 2012 SP1 UR9). There are three updates available...
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Enterprise-Grade Array-Based Replication and Disaster Recovery with ASR and...
Today’s GA announcement delivers on a widely requested enhancement from our Enterprise customers – the ability to leverage replication capabilities of existing Storage Area Network (SAN) Arrays to...
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Hotfix for known issues in Update Rollup 5 for System Center 2012 R2 Virtual...
You may experience the following issues after Update Rollup 5 for Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM 2012 R2 UR5) is installed: - When you try to deploy or migrate a new High...
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HOTFIX: Registered SMB shares do not appear as a target path option when you...
Just a quick note to let you know about a new hotfix that we have available. The hotfix addresses an issue that can occur after Update Rollup 5 for Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine...
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New VM Role option: Choose between differencing disks or dedicated disks
~ David Armour | Principal Program Manager LeadYour feedback is important to the VMM team. With UR5 we took one of the top items from the Windows Azure Pack UserVoice IaaS category. You probably know...
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Best practices for migrating a datacenter from VMware to Microsoft Hyper-V
~ Giuseppe Di FedericoI’ve had the opportunity to assist many customers who wanted to migrate their infrastructure from VMware to Microsoft Hyper-V so I wanted to take a minute to highlight some of the...
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How to use Microsoft’s VMM User Voice to submit and vote on product...
As David mentioned in his post about the New VM Role option, customer feedback has been very important to us here on the Virtual Machine Manager team. And with that said, we opened VMM User Voice to...
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More Updates on User Voice and Recruitment for Microsoft System Center VMM...
~ Keiko Harada | Program Manager I would like to thank the customers who have registered on VMM User Voice and providing votes and ideas. We've been busy reviewing VMM User Voice. In some of the ideas,...
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Free Microsoft System Center ebook: Deploying Hyper-V with Software-Defined...
We’re happy to announce the release of our newest free ebook, Microsoft System Center Deploying Hyper-V with Software-Defined Storage & Networking (ISBN 9780735695672), by Microsoft TechNet and the...
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Azure Site Recovery: How to protect a large VHD image to Azure
Microsoft Azure Site Recovery users currently cannot directly protect Hyper-V Virtual Hard Disk (VHD)-formatted data disks whose size is greater than 1 terabyte. This situation occurs because of the...
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KB: VMM service does not start and returns ReflectionTypeLoadException after...
After you apply an update rollup for System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM 2012 R2), the System Center Virtual Machine Manager service may fail to start. When you try to manually start the...
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