System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Event ID 19999 and 1
Following an upgrade from System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 to System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012, the System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMMService) service kept crashing a...
View ArticleMicrosoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook
I was lucky enough to be asked to join the technical review panel for the Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook by Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso and published by Packt. This is a...
View ArticleSystem Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1 Permission Issues
I recently had to troubleshoot an issue on a System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 (SCVMM) SP1 server. All the managed hosts were in a state of “Needs Attention”. When viewing the status screen...
View ArticleImproving Virtual Server Deployment Time With Unattend.xml
As all the virtual machines I create using Hyper-V have the same hardware I decided to investigate the PersistAllDeviceInstalls option for unattend.xml. The PersistAllDeviceInstalls setting configures...
View ArticleCreate A Dedicated Account To Join Computers To A Domain
This is a quick post to describe the process of creating a dedicated account for joining machines to an Active Directory (AD) domain. This is useful for things like System Center Configuration Manger...
View ArticleEvent ID 17140 & 15030 On Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V
Looking through the Event Logs on a Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V host I could see multiple entries for event IDs 17140 & 15030 as below 17140 – The specified account name is not valid: ‘%USER...
View ArticleImprove Virtual Machine Migration Performance
During the migration from a Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V cluster to one based on Windows Server 2012 R2 I have had to migrate a lot of virtual machines. The migration speed was lower than I expected...
View ArticleUnable To Live Migrate A Virtual Machine –“There currently are no network...
Having moved a virtual machine (VM) from a Hyper-V cluster where network optimization was available, to a cluster where it isn’t I was unable to live migrate the VM because “There currently are no...
View ArticleNew Book System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
I had the privilege of being a technical review on this great new book from Alessandro Cardoso. If you work with SCVMM 2012 R2 take a look. Covering : Windows 2012 R2 and Hyper-V new features, System...
View ArticleSCVMM 2012 R2 – Dynamic Optimization Cannot Be Performed At This Time
When trying to run the Optimize Hosts wizard within SCVMM 2012 R2 I received the error “Dynamic Optimization Cannot Be Performed At This Time” and “Object reference not set to an instance of an...
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