Windows 8 template stops deploying at 95% waiting on "License Terms"...
As the title says, when deploying a Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 VM from a template in SCVMM 2012 SP1 it won't get past this screen. I have to use the console to complete the installation. This is not...
View ArticleDynamic Optimization option is not working in System Center Virtual Machine...
Hello, The Dynamic Optimization option is not working in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2. The company has five servers in Failover Cluster Virtualization with Hyper-V (Windows Server...
View ArticleSCVMM 2012 R2 Error 26571
SCVMM 2012 R2 show me the following:Error (26571) Cannot refresh the Windows file server storage provider (IP) because the storage provider has atleast one file server that has not been successfully...
View ArticleGranting one AD user to view a Console on one VM
How do I grant 1 Active Directory user the ability to use the console on one Virtual Machine in VMM without playing around with clouds or giving them administrator rights on everything?That's it. One...
View ArticleMaturity and Stability
Being a long time VMWare customer (since ESX 2.5.3), I am very unimpressed with SCVMM. I like the idea of the Hyper-V platform and the innovation and stability of the platform over the past iterations...
View ArticleHow to ensure that VMM 2012 does not alter any network settings on Hyper-V...
We have a couple of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V hosts, for which I am investigating whether it might be a good idea to use VMM 2012 to manage them.It was something of a pain to get networking set up...
View ArticleCan not ctreate VM from generiazed VHDX disk at VMM 2012 R2
Hello to all!I try to create VM from vhdx disk at VMM 2012 R2.What I did:1. Prepare a vhdx. Perform sysprep \generalize from inside virtual machine. 2. Copy vhdx to VMM library. 3. Create VM from VMM...
View ArticleVMM Enhanced Session Mode
Is there perhaps a setting that would allow us, using VMM 2012 R2 console, connecting to a Windows 8.1 client on a Windows Server 2012 R2 host, to use Enhanced Session Mode?We just need the ability to...
View ArticleiSCSI Array create multiple sessions from VMM
I have an SCVMM server 2012 R2 a iSCSI Target server windows 2012 R2 and a Hyper-v host also in 2012 R2. Hyper-v host has Initiator and MPIO installed. I have 2 dedicated NICS on my hyper-v host and my...
View ArticleVMM 2012R2: VMM Server, agent status: access denied
After upgrade SCVMM 2012SP1 to 2012R2 Library Server became unavailable. All library sources with status "missing".In VMM Console (Fabric - Servers - Infrastructure) VMM Server and Library Server agent...
View ArticleSCVMM "imported" cluster not validating correctly - "No disks were found on...
I have been managing my Cluster with MMC, HyperV Manager and the FailoverClustering tools. Recently, I decided to give SCVMM 2012 a try, and after installing it, and adding my cluster, Its all there,...
View Articlescvmm 2012 custom properties broken
I'm having this issue and wondering if it's a BUG:Using powershell on the VMM 2012 server, Legacy custom properties (Custom1-Custom10) cannot be updated. Try this and see:get-vm | select...
View ArticleConvert OVF from VMWARE to HYPERV
I have a VM in OVF format which is exported from ESXI . Now since i want to import this to Hyperv. i had installed OVF Import/Export tool in my SCVMM server as per this link...
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Machines in a Service fail to domain join when @Domain@ is used to define the...
I am attempting to use a Service Configuration setting to define the Domain that the machines in my Service will be joining (so I only have to define the domain once).So, in the Domain join setting of...
View ArticleSCVMM 2012 R2 networking help
I am deploying a new VMM 2012 R2 server with 44 2012 r2 hyper-v hosts, each have a quad port nic and 2 onboard nics, all ports for all hosts are on the same vlan and subnet. I have been reading some...
View ArticleEvent ID 25936 (Cannot validate argument on parameter 'VMMServer'.)
I seem to be getting this Event 25936 very often in the Application Log of my VMM Server. Can anyone guide me to as what might be the problem?Cannot validate argument on parameter 'VMMServer'. The...
View ArticleCreate VM Template
Hi,I am testing Windows Azure Pack for Server using SC 2012 R2. I noticed that my VM Template is empty when accessing from Admin Portal, while it's actually not when accessing from SCVMM.I already...
View ArticleMicrosoft System Center 2012 R2\Virtual Machine Manager service will not start
Brand new install of VMM on Server 2012 R2A couple of days later there were new updates to .Net, after which vmmservice.exe will simply not startFantastic job Microsoft! Kill your own productBut maybe...
View ArticleConfiguring IP pool after VM cretion
Hi! When I am creating VM from template in network adapter setting I can decide if I want to use dynamic IP or from IP pool. But I can't do it later, when VM is deployed. Is it possible to change this...
View ArticleSCVMM service Can't start on restart
Hello,I have SCVMM 2012 R2 installed on Windows 2012 R2 Data center running sql 2012. I have recently installed VMM on the server. Upon Reboot the SCVMM service can't start. I have configured the...
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