Here are some tips for installing System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Update Rollup (UR5): UR5 is available from Microsoft Update or by manual download. If you are not installing UR5 through Microsoft Update (e.g. you’re downloading the update and then installing it), you must install …
Continue ReadingUpdate rollup (UR) 3 for System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager is released this week. This update includes a Linux guest agent upgrade to support the following new operating systems: Ubuntu Linux 14.04 (32-bit) Ubuntu Linux 14.04 (64-bit) This update also includes the following: Host DHCP …
Continue ReadingDuring a migration of a VM from a different cluster the job failed in SCVMM. The status of the VM in SCVMM Virtual Machine State is still “Starting”. In SCVMM I was unable to stop, repair or delete the VM. When looking on the Hyper-V host, the VM didn’t exist in Failover Cluster Manager or Hyper-V …
Continue ReadingIn System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) an Update (WSUS) Server is added, so VMM can be used to update the hosts with Windows patches.When trying to scan a cluster of hosts for compliance the following error occurred: Error (24035) Compliance scan failed with error: 80244017. Recommended …
Continue ReadingIn the jobs window in the System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) console , the following warning appeared: Warning (10803) Unable to refresh \\server\share\ISO\Windows2012 R2\SW_DVD5_Windows_Svr_Std_and_DataCtr_2012_R2_64Bit_English_Core_MLF_X19-05182.ISO because the file is in use by another …
Continue ReadingLast week Update Rollup 2 (UR2) for System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager is released. UR2 contains important fixes for SCVMM2012 R2. Here are some deployment tips for UR2: Wait a least couple of weeks before deploying Update Rollups in your production environment. It happens that new Update …
Continue ReadingDuring a Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Health Check I needed to know the snapshot file sizes for the all the snapshots on the Clustered Shared Volumes (CSVs). The Get-VMCheckpoint Cmdlet does not report the snapshot size. So I create a PowerShell one-liner that displays the following information: …
Continue ReadingLast week I created a simple example of a HealtCheck PowerShell script that connects to Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager and displays information about the Hyper-V hosts and VMs managed by this server. I run the PowerShell script from another Windows Server 2012 host. To make this …
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