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VMM tricks: Saving and re-applying the #virtual machine metadata in #VMM

Michael Michael has posted a great blog that outlines exactly how to restore the metadata through the use of powershell scripts. http://blogs.technet.com/b/m2/archive/2010/04/16/saving-and-re-applying-the-virtual-machine-metadata-in-vmm.aspx The saved Read More
posted Tuesday, August 24, 2010 11:30 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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P2V fails with Error 2912 0x80072F0C with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008

When using System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) to perform a Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion, the job may fail at 60% with the following error: Error (2912) An internal error has occurred trying to contact an agent on the vmmserver.contoso.com Read More
posted Monday, August 23, 2010 11:38 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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Clustering in Hardware Virtualization Environments

So this is an interesting topic… Server virtualization technologies have become so simple and efficient for most organizations.. Using the advanced technologies to provide high availability like ( Hyper-V Live and Quick migration or VMWare  Read More
posted Sunday, August 15, 2010 10:23 AM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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New KB Article: Configuring Certificates for Virtual Machine Connection

Hyper-V team just published a new KB article called “Configuring Certificates for Virtual Machine Connection“ that talks about the way Hyper-V uses certificates and how to set it up. They also explain why we need them, something that might Read More
posted Friday, August 13, 2010 2:50 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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Virtualization of Office Communications Server 2010 “aka Wave 14 “

A while ago I wrote about virtualization of Office Communication Server 2007 R2, OCS 2007 R2 had a limited supportability for virtualization” Only the Presence, IM (including remote access, federation, and PIC) and Group Chat workloads”. The next Read More
posted Friday, August 13, 2010 2:49 PM by Fawzi | 1 Comments
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Guest Failover Clustering with VMware

So what is the supported configuration to run Windows Cluster on VMware. lden makes it all clear over on the clustering blog http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clustering/archive/2010/07/27/10042799.aspx This blog discusses running a Windows Server Failover Cluster Read More
posted Monday, August 02, 2010 2:01 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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Tuning Windows 2008 R2 SP1 dynamic memory for best performance

What is Dynamic Memory? Dynamic memory overview Dynamic memory allows you to configure a virtual machine so that the amount of memory assigned to the virtual machine is adjusted while the virtual machine is running, in reaction to the amount of Read More
posted Monday, August 02, 2010 2:00 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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VMM Tricks: VMM Domain Function Level … Why

So most of use already knows that VMM 2008 R2 required Windows 2003 Domain level for the installation and I already blogged about some error that you may face if VMM is connected and authenticated by windows 2000 domain controller in the installation Read More
posted Monday, August 02, 2010 1:58 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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SCVMM and Windows 2008 R2 SP1 Dynamic Memory support

This is a very important question… When SCVMM will support Dynamic Memory feature introduced in Windows 2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V server? There is less public information about the new features that integrated with Windows 2008 R2 SP1 so far, So I had Read More
posted Monday, August 02, 2010 1:58 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0 Step by Step Guide- Part Two

Self-Service Portal Components The self-service portal consists of three components: VMMSSP website: A Web-based component that provides a user interface to the self-service portal. Through the VMMSSP website, users can perform various tasks Read More
posted Friday, July 23, 2010 7:01 PM by Fawzi | 2 Comments
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System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self Service Portal: Private Cloud Customer Case Study!

Hi folks, Last week at the WPC, we sannounced the release candidate for the System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal (SC VMM Self Service Portal). The SC VMM Self Service Portal allows our enterprise customers set up their own Read More
posted Friday, July 23, 2010 7:01 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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SCVMM and Dynamic Memory support

This is a very important question… When SCVMM will support Dynamic Memory feature introduced in Windows 2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V server? There is less public information about the new features that integrated with Windows 2008 R2 SP1 so far, So I had Read More
posted Friday, July 23, 2010 7:01 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 5.0 is Now Available

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is an agentless tool designed to simplify and streamline the IT infrastructure planning process across multiple scenarios through network-wide automated discovery and assessments. MAP performs Read More
posted Friday, July 16, 2010 2:49 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0 Step by Step Guide- Part One

What is Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0? Microsoft is enabling customers to build the foundation for private cloud infrastructure using Windows Server/Hyper-V and the System Center family of products with Read More
posted Friday, July 16, 2010 2:49 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0 Release Candidate

The Journey to the Private Cloud Today customers can begin their journey to the private cloud by deploying the Microsoft products and technologies they know and trust. The flexible and familiar platform and tools you use today will become Read More
posted Friday, July 16, 2010 2:47 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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