The future: CloudOS
5 Reasons Why You Will Enjoy Using the new Swordfish API
Hello everyone, Taking this opportunity to inform you about one of the projects I am working on is a...
Date: 09/20/2016
3 Great Reasons to Work in System Center's Storage Management Team - Calling all Developers
I started at Microsoft in July 2007 as a program manager. My new job also required re-locating to...
Date: 07/11/2014
On the road for MMS and TechEd 2013
MMS and TechEd season is here and in full swing. MMS in Vegas was a great success and I really...
Date: 05/28/2013
Simplicity is Key to Private Cloud from Microsoft (cross post)
Source:https://community.brocade.com/community/brocadeblogs/data_center/blog/2012/04/25/simplicity-is...
Date: 04/30/2012
FI-B322 - Scripts used during MMS 2012 PowerShell session
Hello everyone, For all of those attending MMS 2012, hope you are having a great week! As promised...
Date: 04/16/2012
Analyzing Storage Performance using the Windows Performance Analysis ToolKit (WPT) (cross post)
Excellent post by Robert Smith, PFE: Introduction Performance problems, especially as they may...
Date: 03/10/2012
SC 2012 - Virtual Machine Manager Storage Automation with the IBM XIV Storage System Gen3
IBM recently announced support for SC 2012 - VMM storage automation with the IBM XIV storage system...
Date: 02/09/2012
SC 2012 VMM: Collecting storage related traces
SC 2012 VMM ships with a new service called the Storage Management Service which communicates with...
Date: 12/08/2011
Windows Server 8: Standards-Based Storage Management
Great post from Jeffrey Snover Windows Server 8 is a cloud optimized OS. You’ve probably heard...
Date: 11/14/2011
SCVMM 2012: Live from SNIA SMILab Plugfest – Creating 50 VMs using SAN based Rapid Provisioning
Today is the 4th and final day of the SNIA SMILab plugfest. One of the tests we use to validate...
Date: 10/20/2011
SCVMM 2012 Quick Tip: Finding which storage arrays a Hyper-V host can see
SNIA SMI Lab kicked off the 4th and final plugfest for 2011 this week. Microsoft is here along with...
Date: 10/18/2011
System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2012 RC - now available for download
Date: 09/08/2011
Loading VMM and vSphere cmdlets into the same PowerShell Console
Hello everyone, This is Hector Linares, Program Manager for storage automation and with help from...
Date: 08/23/2011
List all the VMs hosted on a specific SAN array
Hey everyone, While preparing for my TechReady session, I reached out to a fellow dev on the team to...
Date: 07/26/2011
How much faster is IE10 compared to IE9, Chrome 11, and FireFox 4
So I downloaded and installed the IE10 Platform Preview today and started to check out what's new....
Date: 04/13/2011
Storage Automation in VMM 2012 - Overview
Hi, I am Hector Linares, Senior Program Manager on the SCVMM team. This blog is an overview of the...
Date: 04/07/2011
Funny stuff on the internet (positive demos of Hyper-V Dynamic Memory by the competition)
Hey everyone, There is so much random stuff on the web these days. Some content is good for a laugh...
Date: 04/01/2011
Using SCVMM 2012, NetApp SMI-S provider, and Visio to visualize storage
Hello everyone, So the VMM team finally announced BETA at MMS in March. One request we heard from...
Date: 03/30/2011
Case of the Unexplained: Lost Client Connections
At TechEd Berlin I had the opportunity to present a VMM performance troubleshooting case study in...
Date: 12/06/2010
How to list VMs by the virtual network they are connected to
This is from an internal question I replied to. This is a simply script given as a starting point...
Date: 06/25/2010
Domain Join on a Win2k3 VMWare VM from template does not work
The product team is still investigating this issue to come up with a viable solution. Its worth...
Date: 06/25/2010
P2V fails, if App-V is installed on source machine
VMM P2V agent does not like the App-V virtual drive. I was able to repro the following issue using...
Date: 06/25/2010
Mastering Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2
Mastering Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 by Michael Michael and Hector Linares is now available on...
Date: 12/10/2009
Comparison: SCVMM P2V and Sysinternals Disk2VHD
Sysinterals recently released a free P2V. The comparison table below is for your reference to help...
Date: 10/26/2009
Recovering VM that has snapshots but no Hyper-V Export file (last resort)
If you need to quickly recover a VM that has snapshots but no export file, you can use the commands...
Date: 08/24/2009
SCVMM 2008 R2 RTM is now available
Download the eval of SCVMM 2008 R2 RTM -...
Date: 08/24/2009
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Volume Activation Deployment Guide Published
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd772269.aspx Includes KMS client setup keys. Useful when...
Date: 07/20/2009
Quick Storage Migration
Excellent post from Edwin Yuen on Quick Storage Migration (QSM):...
Date: 06/27/2009
SCVMM 2008 R2 RC Public Release Available Now!
Today the SCVMM team released SCVMM 2008 R2 Release Candidate. You can read all about it here....
Date: 06/08/2009
How to replicate VMM templates from one Library server to another Library Server programmatically?
Many customers ask how they can replicate VMM templates to other Library servers (within a single...
Date: 11/21/2008
How to change default P2V port
VMM2008 will block P2V on source machines with an SSL cert registered on 443. To change the default...
Date: 11/13/2008
Error (12709) The operation on did not complete successfully because of the error: Server sent disconnect message
When you perform a V2V from a VMware host and I get the following error: Error (12709)The operation...
Date: 10/23/2008
Deploying a new VM from template in VMM requires a PID for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008... but your environment uses KMS for activation
Check out the following document for a set of public PIDs that you can use in the OS profile:...
Date: 10/21/2008
SCVMM2008 RTM
Please continue reading more on Rakesh's blog:...
Date: 10/21/2008
New VM from template fails with "Windows could not parse or process the unattend answer file for pass [specialize]..."
VMM uses Template objects to deploy new VMs from templates stored in the Library. To automate the...
Date: 08/22/2008
Migrating VS2005 VM with VM Additions (13.813+) installed to Hyper-V using VMM
VMM 2008 automates the uninstall of Virtual Server VM Additions (version 13.813+) and installation...
Date: 08/21/2008
Digging deeper into: Error (13206) Virtual Machine Manager cannot locate the boot or system volume on virtual machine
When creating a new VM from scratch with a blank VHD or a VHD with a non-Windows OS, you will get...
Date: 08/21/2008
Using a static MAC range in VMM
VMM has a new cmdlet to get the next available MAC from the static pool: New-PhysicalAddress. When...
Date: 05/07/2008