Remove VMM and return to Hyper-V
Hello,VMM isn't working out for my situation, it's too complicated and most things I try and do I end up spending an hour Googling error messages to pick my way through its complexities. I'd like to...
View ArticleUnable to delete an Orphaned Checkpoint
Hi,I have a SCVMM 2012 R2 instance with 3 hostsI recently moved a VM between the hosts which failed. Having tidied up I was left with a bunch of checkpoints on the VM, which I removed via the SCVMM...
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Add a node to a highly available library server
Hi All,My issue is related to VMM library servers.I built a mono-node file server cluster, and i added this cluster to VMM as a library server and library share.In the VMM console, i have to following...
View ArticleHosts/Library systems don't show as requiring any updates/no new updates in...
We have VMM 2012 R2. In Sept/Oct of 2014 we were able to update all resources in VMM (Library Servers and Hyper-V hosts) by creating an update baseline and then adding updates to it. However, since...
View ArticleService Templates ... too inflexible or am I missing something?
Title gets to the root of the question but I'd like to propose a scenario and the issues I'm running into.In this scenario we have a series of Domain Controllers that have been deployed by a (very)...
View ArticleService Templates with Server Technical Preview and SCVMM Technical Preview
Hi,I am not sure where to report issues with the technical preview of scvmm so I will try it here. I have a test Installation with SCVMM technical preview and Windows Server technical preview and I am...
View ArticleUser right VMM 2012 R2 UR 4 problems
Hello,I have noticed a problem when setting up a new enviroment with VMM 2012 R2 UR 4.Domain users that are not added to have any rights to VMM can suddenly access the enviroment with full admin...
View ArticleVmmService not Starting After Uninstall Hotfix
Hello All, We are running SCVMM 2008 R2 with SP1. I have installed the following hotfix support.microsoft.com/kb/978560 Post Installation of hotfix, I found all the Vms are in Not responding Status....
View ArticleVarious actions hanging
I am having real trouble with SCVMM 2012 R2 (no rollups). Upon startup, I can get actions to execute, but after a short period of time, the server component just doesn't seem to respond. Even something...
View ArticleCSV Storage capacity discrepancies
We are using HyperV 2012 on Server 2012We use SAN with Clustered Storage Pool for all our vhdx files.I just recently migrated storage around as the free space was low on a few of our VolumesI have...
View ArticlePlease recommend a simple VMM Three Tier Application download
Hi there, can you recommend a simple end-to-end three tier service deployment sample MSI download. I tried PetShop but can only get it to work across 2 servers (i.e. a single IIS presentation /...
View ArticleVMM 2012 R2 - Create or Update Run As Account Failure: The specified...
VMM 2012R2 UR4 - Version 3.2.7768.0Not sure when this started happening since I haven't had to update or create a new RunAs account in VMM in some time, but every time I do, either through the console...
View ArticleGuest cluster IP address ?
Hi all,We have setup a new private cloud and now we are in the process of moving the workloads from existing hypervisors to the private cloud. One of the requirement will be to migrate some clustered...
View ArticleSCVMM losing connection to cluster nodes
Hey guys'n girls, I hope this is the right forum for this question. I already opened a ticket at MS support as well because it's impacting our production environment indirectly, but even after a week...
View ArticleStorage migration for virtual machine fails with general access denied error
Hello all,I have a annoying problem with storage migration. Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V and SCVMM 2012 R2, SAN storage, CSV volumes. Error (12700) VMM cannot complete the host operation on the...
View ArticleHow to show Dynamic Optimization in action - a dummies guide.
I am new to HyperV 2012 R2 and SCVMM.Looking for a recipe that will allow me to cause VMs to live migrate between hosts in a cluster, via the SCVMM DO feature. I have a 3 host cluster with...
View ArticleHow to manually calculate total host memory on SCVVM 2008R2
I'm looking for a formula to calculate the total memory amount used on a host. When I add all allocated memory from the VM's, add the reserved host memory and add 32MB per VM it's still not enough to...
View ArticleUnable to connect to the VMM database because of a general database failure....
Hello Having trouble with a user logging into VMM console.Company renamed our Windows AD user id's. since then a user cannot log into the VMM console.Unable to connect to the VMM database because of a...
View ArticleBig data/Database performance with VHD/VHDX storage
Dears,I need to build a virtual database server (Solaris) on Windows 2012 R2 hyper-v , and im concerning about the database performance since i have to use VHD/VHDx storage hosted on a SAN storage , i...
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Virtualizing network on a single host with VMM
I wonder, is it even possible to do a full Network virtualization with VMM on a single Hyper-V host? I would like to get as much benefit as possible from VMM in my LAB where I run one host for AD and...
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