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A couple of weeks ago we organized a Best of MMS event together with our local MVP’s and SCUG user group. We’ve published all the sessions onto the Belux page on TechNet Edge Session 1: Belgian Best of MMS: System Center State of the Union In a year packed...
One of our partners build a 4 node Hyper-V cluster with Datacenter Edition and wants to use System Center Essentials 2010 to manage the Virtualization layer. As SCE 2010 can manage up to 50 Machines it is the ideal solution for his environment. However...
Best of Microsoft Management Summit 2010 Best of MMS 2010 will provide the opportunity to learn more about IT Management solutions from Microsoft and how you can adopt them in your datacenter. MMS is an annual event in Las Vegas where we deliver deep...
What is SCOM 2007 R2 and how can it help in managing SQL Servers. Managing SQL Server requires insight in the state and performance of the underlying infrastructure, OS and individual SQL components. System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 cannot only...
I often get the question if you can use System Center Essentials 2010 (SCE) to manage your Virtual Infrastructure. The answer depends on how many virtual machines you want to manage today and in the future. SCE 2010 includes Virtual Machine management...
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...
I’ve just added a new Opalis session in the IT Pro track. IT Process Automation with System Center and Opalis In this session OpsMgr MVP Maarten Goet will talk about how IT Process Automation or Run Book Automation (RBA) can orchestrate tasks across...
In this session, we will take a detailed look at how Service Manager integrates with Operations Manager (SCOM) and Configuration Manager (SCCM) to help you to more effectively manage systems in your data center, learn how to define and manage business...
As Infrastructure Architects, you obviously are passionate, knowledgeable and experienced in IT infrastructure technology and want to keep in touch with the upcoming technology trends. Evenly important, and increasingly important in these crisis period...
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...
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 just released the new VMMCA for vmm 2008 and vmm 2008 r2. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=02d83950-c03d-454e-803b-96d1c1d5be24&displaylang=en Brief...
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, 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
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
As I mentioned in me previous post System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 Beta is available for download and as a coincidence (believe it or not but it's true) I installed the bits today to test this new management tool. The installation...
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...
As promised I'm writing another post about what feedback I receive from our IT Pro's in the IT Pro Momentum Program . Hyper-V: Installing W2K8 and Hyper-V was very easy. We’re heavily using Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 and Virtual Machine...