System Center Virtual Machine Manager helps enable centralized management of physical and virtual IT infrastructure, increased server utilization, and dynamic resource optimization across multiple virtualization platforms. It includes end-to-end capabilities such as planning, deploying, managing, and optimizing the virtual infrastructure.
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SCVMM 2012 SP1 Migration Error
I have a host grouping of several nearly-identical host machines running WS08R2 SP1. They are all running direct-attached storage of different sizes/raid types. They were running VMM08R2, but I've begun the switch to 2012SP1, and am now no longer…
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Migration of Virtual Machines using SCVMM error 1612
The situation is as follows: I have installed SCVMM on our Windows Server 2008. I can create VMs fine, use them, etc. Everything works fine with the VMs themselves. However, if I decide to do the following: Migration of an existing VM, Cloning an…
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SCVMM 2012 SP1 - "Isolate using Hyper-V network virtualization" grayed out
I want to create a VM Network which is isolated. But the option "Isolate using Hyper-V network virtualization" is grayed out. Why?
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Can I run SCVMM 2012 and SCDPM 2012 on the same server?
We have a small environment where a dedicated System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 server is used to back up everything; the server has no performance problems and plenty of hardware resources available.
We also have a Hyper-V cluster, and…
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Move snapshots between machines
I have two VMs one(VM2) was created from a template of the other(VM1). I added VM1 to SCVMM library without cloning it first, now I can't access it, deploy it, or create VMs using it.
To create VM2 I copied the VHD across the network to the host…
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System Center 2012 VMM UI is very slow
I've recently setup system center 2012 a new server 2008 r2 server which I'm using for virtual machines. Everything seems to be working fine, and the virtual machines are nice and fast.
But the Virtual Machine Manager interface is always…
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Cannot uninstall SCVMM R2 - Error code 256
When I attempt to uninstall SCVMM R2 I receive an error complaining about help/license.rtf. Has anyone seen this issue?
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SCVMM Installation Requirements for a Hyper-V Environment
I have 3 hosts (+1 for management with windows 7) and I would like to implement virtualisation on the Hyper-V platform. I downloaded Hyper-V Server 2008 R2.
Can the SCVMM be installed on windows 7 host? Does it have any other requirements?
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Windows 2008 R2 Hyper V Performance
We would like to monitor/view our performance on all Virtual machines running on our Windows 2008 R2 Hyper V Server. We need the ability to view common stats live on the server and also be able to view reports?
I know about performance monitor, but…
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Can the same Hyper-V hosts be added to multiple servers running System Center Virtual Machine Manager?
I have 2 Hyper-V host servers. One of the hosts is running a guest that runs the current existing System Center Virtual Machine Manager instance for my virtualization setup.
I now have an external server to host the System Center Virtual Machine…
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Chris Marisic
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Hyper-V host w/SCVMM & Backup Excec
I wanted to get any feedback with installing Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager on our Hyper-V host that also has Symantec Backup Exec 2010.
Our host is running as a member of the domain, and has Backup Exec 2010 installed. We would…
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P2V conversion with VMM to a USB Drive
For testing purpose, I would like to be able to do P2V conversion thanks to VMM by creating the VM on a USB Hard Drive. VMM (I guess due to Hyper-V) does not show my USB Hard Drive in the hard drive list. It only shows me the physical hard…
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Hyper-V Find VM by MAC Address
With Hyper-V, is there any way to locate a virtual machine knowing only the MAC Address and an IP address it's using? I have access to SCVMM and Failover Cluster Manager but the option to search by MAC doesn't appear to be listed.
Thanks.
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Cannot get SCVMM Admin Console to Connect to Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
I cannot get SCVMM Admin console to connect to Hyper-V Server 2008. I have changed all firewall settings on the server to allow for a connection, I have even tried turning the firewall off completely. I am getting this error message:
Unable to…
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How can I increase the size of the hard disk used by my Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) vm?
In Virtual Machine Manager admin console, I used the 'New virtual machine' wizard and created a machine from an existing template.
When I got to the Configure Hardware step, I selected the primary hard disk (which is a dynamic) disk and tried to…
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