Performing Maintenance Tasks in VMM

 

Updated: May 13, 2016

Applies To: System Center 2012 SP1 - Virtual Machine Manager, System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager, System Center 2012 - Virtual Machine Manager

The procedures in this section describe how to perform common maintenance tasks in Virtual Machine Manager (VMM).

Maintenance topics

• How to Create and Assign a Servicing Window in VMM

  Describes how to create a user-defined time period to indicate when an object (for example, a host) is available to be taken offline for maintenance.

• How to Place a Host in Maintenance Mode in VMM

  Describes how to use maintenance mode to move or save virtual machines on a host before taking the host offline for maintenance.

• Back Up and Restore Virtual Machine Manager

  Describes how to backup and restore the VMM environment.