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Forums: PRO - Custom reports?

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:33:47 GMT

The out of the box reports are useful, has anyone created any reports for virtual machines such as chargeback reports?

Forums: Re: PRO - Custom reports?

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:29:32 GMT

I agree vKernel will do the job, I'll look at vCenter Chargeback though as my todo list has to put some esx hosts and vcenter in for training purposes.

Forums: RE: PRO - Custom reports?

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:17:45 GMT

Ronnie, never seen anyone write something from scratch for Hyper-V, but have looked at some 3rd party options for virtualization chargeback based on consumption. You might look at vKernel - http://www.vkernel.com/solutions/chargeback.

VMware also offers some of this functionality natively in their VMware vCenter Chargeback v. 1.01...

Forums: How to use the custom properties in SCVMM 2008

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:50:16 GMT

Greetings,

I am currently facing the following challenge and I have not being able to find good information on the internet.

I need to know when was the last time the adminsitrator account logged to the virtual machines, like loggin to the console or remotly using RDC.

I have a exe file that can login to any given virtual machine and returns the results I need (using the command prompt); however the real challenge is to use the Custom properties in VMM to have the information display in the console.

Is there a how to, or some examples that I could follow to make use of those custom properties?
Should I run the utility through a batch file?
How can I run my utility in the custom properties?

It is worh noting that this virtual machines are not part of any domain and that the utility I have already returns the value I need, but I just need to integrate it with VMM.

Any help will be appreaciated.

Thanks and have a nice day.

Forums: Re: How to use the custom properties in SCVMM 2008

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:42:55 GMT

Do you have SCOM or another monitoring application that can watch the security event log of the servers ? If something is polling the security eventlog then you could configure it to run an update script each time there is successful logon attempt.

Regards - Ronnie

Forums: Re: How to use the custom properties in SCVMM 2008

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:31:04 GMT

Hello,

Any ideas as to how to populate the custom properties in VMM 2008?

Thanks.

Forums: Re: How to use the custom properties in SCVMM 2008

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:19:32 GMT

If I can get it through PowerShell then the better and I will learn a great deal out of it; however, the ultimate goal is to show the last time the account log on to the server in VMM. Regardless, I do appreaciated your help.

Have a nice day.

Forums: RE: How to use the custom properties in SCVMM 2008

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:05:51 GMT

I think perhaps I could show you how to update that property in PowerShell (VMM Command Shell). Is that what you had in mind?

Forums: SCVMM Scaling

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:24:50 GMT

We are going to be rolling out new Branch server hardware in the next few months and with that new hardware will come Windows Server 2008 R2 using Hyper-V. The VM's will take the place of the physical servers at the branches. I looked up the specs on deploying an SCVMM server to manage the Hosts and the highest configuration is gives specs for is for more than 150 agents. My issue is our rollout will be to almost 750 Host servers (basically one per branch). Has anyone worked in an SCVMM environment this size (larger or close to it) and if so what were the SCVMM server specs? Also what about any issues? We have an SCVMM server already in our datacenter but it only manages about 20 Host servers and it was kind of a rough start when first implemented. R2 has fixed many of these issues but we're talking about a very large deployment. Thanks.

Forums: RE: SCVMM Scaling

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:45:21 GMT

I'd agree you want error to the side of a bit extra in terms of resources. Have you planned for a library share at each branch as well? Don't want to drag .iso files across the WAN. Using PRO Integration? Need to consider OpsMgr mgmt groups in the design as well.

For the actual design decision criteria, I strongly suggest you have a look at the Infrastructure Plannning and Design Solution Accelerator for SCVMM 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=ad3921fb-8224-4681-9064-075fdf042b0c&displaylang=en

It currently says :Updated! System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 – version 2.0 updated for SCVMM 2008 R2

The Infrastructure Plannning and Design Solution Accelerators have design guidance you will not find anywhere else. I wrote a bit about what exactly, which you'll find here.

Microsoft Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides: What do they provide and why do I need them?

Forums: How to create a Windows 2008 VM template in Hyper-V and VMM 2008?

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:54:53 GMT

All, I am trying to figure out how to create a Windows 2008 VM template using Virtual Machine Manager 2008. When I try to do this with a powered off Windows 2008 VM, all I get is an immediate "Sysprep failed".

Has anyone already done this or know of a resource to give me a quick education in how to make this happen? I've been googling and reading for 20 minutes already and not really getting to the information I need.

Forums: RE: How to create a Windows 2008 VM template in Hyper-V and VMM 2008?

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 03:58:18 GMT

That was the problem! I loaded Virtual Guest Services and template creation in VMM Admin Console worked. VMM sure did not give me a very intuitive error message.

For some reason, I thought those services were installed by default?

Forums: RE: How to create a Windows 2008 VM template in Hyper-V and VMM 2008?

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:28:45 GMT

Tommy, all you have to do is supply a value for Name, Password, and License fields when you run the Create Template wizard. If any of these were missing, you would receive an explicit error message asking for a value.

If the create template process fails immediately when run from within VMM 2008 Admin Console, you answer is almost certainly Virtual Guest Servies. To fix this, select the VM and then click the 'Install Virtual Guest Services' in the Action pane.

Then with the virtual machine powered down, try again and I bet sysprep from within VMM 2008 works for you.

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Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:26:31 GMT

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Forums: RE: Welcome to the Virtual Machine Manager Forum!

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:46:41 GMT

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Forums: RE: Welcome to the Virtual Machine Manager Forum!

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:29:52 GMT

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Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:04:13 GMT

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Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:54:28 GMT

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Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:53:40 GMT

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