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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Error 26101: SSL certificate common name invalid
I have 3 systems with similar configuration:
Windows Server Datacenter 2008R2
MS System Center 2012
connected to a storage array
On 2 systems I can add the storage provider from VMM without any issues.
On the 3rd system I keep getting this error…
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How to set BMC authentication key for SCVMM host?
I am trying to configure my hosts in SCVMM to use IPMI to allow shutting down and powering on from the SCVMM console.
The servers are Dell R710, and have iDRAC6 enterprise cards, running Server 2012R2. SCVMM is 2012R2.
When I try to add the BMC in…
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Can't start VM on Hyper-V 2008R2 cluster
I have a Server 2008R2 Hyper-V cluster with 2 nodes. They use a CSV on a SAN. I use SCVMM to manage them. We recently had several crashes that caused a failover, making virtual machines die and start up on the other node. For the most part, this…
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Unable to add Hyper-v host in different domain
I have a SCVMM2012SP1 server sitting on a dual homed host, this server has connectivity to both our BE and CORP facing networks. I am able to add hosts in DOMAIN1 but not from DOMAIN2.
The VM that is running SCVMM is joined to DOMAIN1, we have a…
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Hyper-V/SCVMM 2012 VLAN ID's not working
I am having issues getting multiple VLAN's set up on my Hyper-V cluster. Here is the scenario; I need to have 2 separate (potentially more in the future) VLAN's to span across the Hyper-V environment. So far I have set up a trunk to the Hyper-V…
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Virtual Machine Manager Set Logical Network with VLAN tag
I have been running Hyper-V and setting VLAN tags on my NICs, this has been working great to partition the guest traffic between VLANs on my switch/router, such as SERVERS, LAB-A, LAB-B and so forth (lab-a and lab-b being research and development…
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Removing and reinstalling System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012
I initially setup hyper-v on a single server with a FC SAN. I configured it as a failover cluster with just the one server in it, using cluster shared volumes for the VMs, knowing I'd expand later.
I'm now getting ready to add my second host to the…
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VMM 2012 on a virtual machine Windows 2012, on a physical host running Windows 2008 R2
I have read that VMM 2012 requires Windows Server 2012 to run on. I am trying to determine if it is possible to run VMM 2012 on a virtual machine with Windows Server 2012, that is actually hosted on a physical machine running Windows Server 2008…
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VMM 2012 Adding Hosts in Trusted Forest
I have two forests with a two way trust between them. VMM 2012 sits in ForestA and I can discover hosts in ForestA with no issue. When I try to discover hosts in ForestB I hit one of two issues:
If I go through the GUI or use Powershell just like I…
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TFS 2010 and SCVMM to manage snapshots
I have a VM with TFS 2010 and SCVMM 2008 installed on (I know you're told not to do that). I have SCVMM linked to the host and that's working good, and have configured the scvmm on the lab management tab on TFS.
My question is, how can you take/roll…
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SCVMM 2008 R2 Powershell Commands
I am running SCVMM 2008 R2 with 3 hosts. Right now I am patching the hosts, so I am running the command
disable-vmhost hostA -MoveWithinCluster
Is there a command that I can run or switch I can enable to direct where the machines on hostA get…
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Cannot uninstall System Center Virtual Machine Mananger (SCVMM)
I wanted to install the new SCVMM 2008 R2 RC, so I thought I would uninstall SCVMM 2008 to do a clean install.
When I try to uninstall it I get the following message:
[Window Title]
Microsoft® System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008
[Main…
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SCVMM V2V conversions stopped working - BITS timeout
I set up System Center Virtual Machine Manager some time ago. We barely use it, except to do conversions from VMWare to Hyper-V. When I initially set it up, it worked fine for this purpose. Now, when I try to do a V2V conversion, the job fails…
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How to do a repair install of SCVMM 2008 R2?
We tried to install SCVMM 2008 R2 on a server last week. The C: drive at that time did not have enough space to contain SCVMM and continue to run server operations, shortly after the install we were forced to manually delete the SCVMM folder in…
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Microsoft SC VMM 2008 R2 doesn't have option to compact virtual hard disk
I can't figure out how to shrink a VHD using Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2. Viewing the article Shrink your VHD size seems like this would be simple to do. However I don't see any of those check boxes that article…
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