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Last week we organized a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure day together with Citrix. We’ve published the sessions onto TechNet Edge . Session 1: VDI Day: Citrix & Microsoft Desktop Virtualization Strategy In this session we will guide you through...
VMST 3.0 helps customers more effectively—and safely—manage the workflow of updating their offline virtualization environment. Using VMST 3.0, customers can now service: · Offline virtual machines in a SCVMM library. · Stopped and saved state virtual...
Come to the TechDays 2010 and attend the following session: Virtualization in Microsoft IT Lessons learned in 5 years of implementing Microsoft’s virtualization platform and System Center Virtual Machine Manager, driving from 5 pilot Virtual Server 2005...
This session focuses on the new capabilities of Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and the free Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2. We will also covers the base architecture of Hyper-V and provides guidance...
TechNet Event: Learn how to use Virtualization from the Desktop to the Datacenter Using products that span the desktop to the data center, you can bring capacities online in real-time, as needed; streamline and provision applications, services and data...
Updated virtualization guides: Windows Server Virtualization and System Center Virtual Machine Manager. These guides, updated to reflect the features and functionalities of Windows Server® 2008 R2 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2, outline...
Hey All, Microsoft has announced updated IPD Guides for SCVMM. You can find more information here: http://blogs.technet.com/technet_flash_feed/archive/2009/09/24/get-the-updated-infrastructure-planning-and-design-guides-for-virtualization-and-system-center.aspx The download can be found here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/solutionaccelerators/ee395430.aspx?SA_CE=VIRT-IPD-BLOG-SCVMM-2009-09-21 Cheers, Mike
Speaker: Arlindo Alves Microsoft Arlindo Alves started his career as an ICT consultant at a Microsoft Partner, with a strong focus and recognized expertise in server based computing. Today, Arlindo is...
Hey All, Microsoft has released the Product Support Reporting Tool for SCVMM2008 and 2008R2 Use the MPS Reporting Tool to gather detailed system status and configuration information from the Virtual Machine Manager server of Virtual Machine Manager 2008 or 2008 R2 server as well as from all managed virtual machine hosts, library servers, and physical to virtual conversion (P2V) source computers. This version of the MPS Reporting Tool collects gathers data to help Microsoft Support Professionals diagnose error conditions experienced in Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2. The Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) version of the MPS Reporting Tool gathers the following diagnostic data for the VMM server, the virtual machine hosts and library servers that the VMM server manages, and physical to virtual conversion (P2V) source computers: Virtual Machine Manager traces Virtual Machine Manager database Windows event logs and...
Securing Hyper-V (with the Winsec User Group) Date and time: THURSDAY 1st October 2009 , start at 18u30 until around 21u00. Event Location: Microsoft BELUX - Corporate Village - Leonardo Da Vincilaan 3...
Hey All, One of the big issues with SCVMM 2008 for me was that the memory available on the hosts is not correct. If you are running quite a large environment with a lot of virtual machines, it is difficult to know how many you have left. You can of course start calculating it manually but… ;-) So here’s a screenshot of the problem As you can see, all my hosts are giving zero kb free of memory. That’s not exactly correct Here’s how to solve this one: On each host that has this problem, open the registry and go to the following key: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\PerfOS\Parameters If you see the key “Disable Performance Counters” then change it to 0. Now you need to restart the WMI service on the host. Please pay attention because it will restart other services too and you don’t want to do this during production hours… After that the services are restarted, you can refresh your configuration in SCVMM and then you get the correct figures Cheers, Mike
Microsoft has just published a guide building a simple PRO-enabled management pack for Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2. This document gives an overview of creating PRO-enabled management packs and walks...
Hey All, One of the nice things in Virtual Machine Manager is the Cost Center feature. Although this seems like “just another field in the database”, it can come in handy when you need to prove to your management which business unit is using what resources. Or, if the servers are used for certain projects, you can prove which project is using what. This can be handy when you need more hardware and the management asks a prove if you are using everything you’ve got ;-) In my example, I’ve added some cost centers to some servers. You do this by double-clicking on the virtual server or by opening the properties of it. As you can see, I’ve added the Cost Center MSS to this server (which is actually the business unit I’m working for ;-)) Now the fun starts when you have Operations Manager in place and you have imported the Virtual Machine Manager Management Pack into OpsMgr. Now you get cool reporting. In Virtual Machine Manager, I go to reporting and I have one...
The product team just announced that SCVMM 2008 R2 is publicly released. Have a look at my previous post to know what changes in SCVMM 2008 R2 You can download SCVMM 2008 R2 from connect.microsoft.com
The Belgian Microsoft Virtualization User Group organizes their second get together on May 28th and will talk about following topics: Hyper-V scripting (Part2) - PowerShell So, you want to Script Hyper-V ? After the April session where we discussed WMI...
While SCVMM 2008 R2 is still in Beta the team is quietly working on improvements for the Release Candidate. There are some great new features coming up: Storage Migration where you will be able to migrate the storage of a VM within the same host...
Technology preview of System Center Virtual Machine Manager which is capable of managing Virtual Machines hosted in the cloud.
Technorati Tags: SCVMM 2008 R2 , Hyper-V , Windows Server 2008 R2 Last week I had the opportunity to present at the Windays in Opitija in Croatia. The first presentation is about the Windows Server Virtualization technology Hyper-V. In this deck I focus...
Microsoft Mythbusters: Top 10 VMware Myths
Normal 0 21 false false false NL-BE X-NONE X-NONE Nice, Microsoft just released vmm 2008 cmdlet reference.....and it's about 442 pages long! Have fun! Abstract: System Center Virtual Machine Manager...
VMM 2008 R2 Beta is a comprehensive management solution for virtualized infrastructure that takes advantage of many of the great new features of Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta including: Live Migration: Enables the movement of running virtual machines from...
This newly-released collection offers a comprehensive introduction to the Microsoft suite of Virtualization products. Collection 6333 includes four two-hour clinics, covering Hyper-V and Terminal Services in Windows Server 2008, System Center Virtual...
System Center Virtual Machine manager is RTM! Microsoft made an announcement today on theire website ! Microsoft is pleased to announce the release to manufacturing (RTM) of System Center Virtual Machine...
Whilst preparing for the TechNet Virtualization roadshow I came across some interesting links to help me with the configuration of the integration of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 and System Center Operations Manager 2007 . Opsmgr 2007 Management...
With the TechEd IT Professional EMEA coming closer I wanted to start share some of the top sessions in different tracks in this first post I will share with you what I think will be the 5 best rated or attended sessions in my track: Windows...
Virtualization: An Introduction to Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 The introduction of Hyper-V makes virtualization an even more compelling solution for IT environments. Get an overview of today’s virtualization market and see how Hyper-V improves...
Later tonight we will officially launch our new virtualization products with the “Get Virtual Now” campaign but the news is on the web now. Now you can virtualize from the data center to the desktop, and manage with the same tools you're already using...
The “TechDays 08” are coming to Luxembourg on Sept 30th, the registration for this event is open. It’s a free event organized by the MS Belux team so be quick to register as places are limited. During this event you will have the possibility to choose...
This week I imported the virtual management pack in our opsmgr. Now I wanted to see my Opmsgr reports from my vmm 2007 console. Based on the info on technet this is the procedure the configure your vmm...
TechEd IT Professionals 2008- Available Videos TechEd IT Professionals 2008 Event Page: http://www.microsoft.com/emea/spotlight/event.aspx?id=104 Links to Session Videos: Introduction to Microsoft Dynamics CRM , Susan Sauls Intro to SQL Server Data Services...
Here is a list of the different Virtualization Solution Accelerators we have at Microsoft: Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.1 for Hyper-V and App-V - http://www.microsoft.com/MAP Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides for Hyper-V, App-V...
Today I finally found the time to update my demo environment which was still based on Hyper-V RC0 and SCVMM 2008 Beta. I want to share all the steps needed to perform the upgrade and updates. My demo environment consists out of 3 physical servers, one...
Last Saturday I presented at an event in Croatia called KulenDayz (aka Cool’n’days). Kind of funny to present at a Sausage (salami) event. Sausage? Yes Kulen means sausage and actually it’s a local spicy sausage, tastes nice. This event is organized by...
Install this update to enable Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Beta (VMM) to function with Release Candidate 1 (RC1) to the Hyper-V role. After you install this update, you may have to restart your computer. Once you have installed this update, it cannot...
Earlier this week we released the Hyper-V RC1 package to the connect.microsoft.com site. What has been improved: In addition to bug fixes and stability improvements we also made some additional changes largely based on feedback from customers Integration...
In the first part of this blogpost I’ve explained how you can install and what to expect during the installation of the server components of SCVMM 2008 Beta. Now we are going through the Console installation ( not much to go through though) and I’ll show...
It has been announced at MMS conference during Bob Muglia his keynote System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Beta is publicly available at the connect site. System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 enables customers to configure and deploy new virtual...
Last week I gave a System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 session for a Belgian partner and I had the opportunity to talk to some of the IT Pro's who attended my session and here is an excerpt of a mail I received from one of those IT Professionals...