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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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How do I add a VMware ESXi Host to Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager?

I am trying to manage virtual machines running on a VMware ESXi host using Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager. I was able to add the ESXi machine using the "Add VMware VirtualCenter server" option, but can't access any of the VMs on the…
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Can't install/update 2008 R2 VMM Agent

I am trying to install and update agents using VMM 2008 R2. My VMM Service account has admin access to the VMM server and the host servers. Logged in as the service account, I can copy files from the VMM server to \hostserver\admin$ all day long.…
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Performance issue when configuring non-HA VM in cluster

A quote from the Technet Planning for Highly Available Virtual Machines Important It is recommended that you not deploy virtual machines that are not highly available on your host clusters. Although you can do this by using Hyper-V (VMM does not…
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How can I convert a physical machine to a Windows Virtual PC machine (possibly using SCVMM)

I've got a physical machine which I'd like to convert to a virtual machine. I've done this P2V process a number of times onto Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V by using System Centre Virtual Machine Manager. However, in this case I'd like to go a…
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Is it possible to rollback a migration from Hyper-V to Azure

I am migrating VMs from Hyper-V to Azure using the integration among SCVMM and the Azure Replication Service. For a given VM, I performed successfully the test failover, I validated the outcome, I cleaned it up, the failover has completed…
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Hyper-V Network Virtualization: NVGRE gateway: NAT error

I have a Hyper-V 2016 cluster with different nodes. This cluster is managed by SCVMM 2016. We make use of Hyper-V Network Virtualization with 5 NVGRE gateways. This cluster runs 400 VM's in 200 virtual networks (education). The system has been…
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Do GUIRunOnce and product key in a VM template work in SCVMM? If so, why are my VMs being spun up not activated?

I'm using SCVMM v3.2.8224 to manage dozens of VMs that run Windows Server 2012 R2 (both Standard and Datacenter). In each VM template's OS properties, I've inputted the pertinent product key from here. However, upon spinning up a VM, the VM shows…
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SCVMM R2: Is there possibility to make P2V conversion on working Windows and synchronize changes made during conversion after whole process?

SCVMM R2: Is there possibility to make P2V conversion on working Windows and synchronize changes made during conversion after whole process? Thanks P.S. Destination is Hyper-V R2 Server.
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HyperV host UUID is not updated in VMM

I made some changes to HyperV host SMBIOS that caused host UUID change. The problem that in VMM I still see old host UUID (in host properties and in Get-SCVMHost). I tried to restart VMM service and VMM agent, I tried to refresh host and cluster -…
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Why does New-SCVirtualNetworkAdapter fail for VMs with names longer than 64 characters?

I have 2 identical VMs, the first has a relatively short name while the 2nd has a name with 65 characters. Why does New-SCVirtualNetworkAdapter succeed for the first but fail for the 2nd? New-SCVirtualNetworkAdapter -vm…
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Installing SCVMM from a domain controller

I'm trying to install SCVMM on a Windows Server 2012 R2, this server is not the domain controller. I have another Windows Server 2012 R2 that is the domain controller. I have read that it is not recommended to install SCVMM on a domain controller,…
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Give console access to non-admin user in SCVMM 2012 R2

Is it possible to allow a non-admin user to connect to the local console of a virtual machine through System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2? As far as I can tell, Application Admin would allow a user to deploy and manage their own VM, but…
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Is there away to rename a VM in System Centre Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2?

I have a VM in SCVMM that the VM name no longer reflects the name of the OS. OS had to be renamed, and now the VM in SCVMM name is incorrect, and it's greyed out so I can't rename it. Is there any Powershell cmdlets to rename the VM in SCVMM 2012…
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Why can't I assign hardware and guest os profiles to servers in the new SCVMM 2012 Service Templates?

Trying to learn SCVMM 2012, but I'm confused about how Guest OS and Hardware Profiles work with the new 2012 Service Templates. I create a Hardware Profile and a Guest OS Profile. Then I open the Create VM Template wizard. In this wizard I can…
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SCVMM 2012 R2 - Installing Virtual Switch Fails with Error 2916

So I've been attempting to teach myself SCVMM 2012 and Hyper-V Server 2012 R2, and I seem to have hit a snag. I've connected my Hyper-V Host to SCVMM 2012 successfully, and created a logical network, logical switch, and uplink port profile (which I…
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