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VMM 2012 and VM expiration

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 19:51:10 GMT

Hey guys, is it possible to configure an expiration date on VMs like you could in VMMSSP 2.0?

Forums: Re: VMM 2012 and VM expiration

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:31:18 GMT

And it looks like there is something similar in the Cloud Services Process Pack?

Add Update Server fails on VMM 2012 when WSUS is intalled locally

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:59:59 GMT

The VMM documentation says this should work, but it doesnt. Does anyone know of a workaround? Error message below.

Error (409)
SCVMM.contoso.com is already associated with a different VMM management server. A computer can only be associated with one VMM management server at a time.

Recommended Action
Remove the association of SCVMM.contoso.com from its current Virtual Machine Manager management server or uninstall the Virtual Machine Manager agent using Add or Remove Programs on SCVMM.contoso.com and try the operation again.

RE: Add Update Server fails on VMM 2012 when WSUS is intalled locally

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:42:22 GMT

Because the VMM installer tries to install an agent on the server running WSUS, I suspect only way this is going to work is if you install WSUS before you install VMM on your server. Not even sure that would do it, but would be worth a try in the lab.

Does VMM 2012 understand Anti-affinity (AntiAffinityClassNames)?

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:07:25 GMT

I have two VMs that must never be on the same Hyper-V host and have setup AntiAffinityClassNames in Failover Clustering, do I also need to exclude those VM guests from VMM Dynamic Optimization?

RE: Does VMM 2012 understand Anti-affinity (AntiAffinityClassNames)?

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:03:06 GMT

See this article:

Private Cloud]: Configuring anti-affinity between VMs on Hyper-V 2008 R2 SP1 and VMM 2012
http://www.systemcentercentral.com/BlogDetails/tabid/143/IndexID/91425/Default.aspx

Forums: Re: Possible to automate scale-out of a service in VMM 2012?

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:56:59 GMT

Thanks. will let you know how I get on with this.

Possible to automate scale-out of a service in VMM 2012?

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:49:22 GMT

I know how to scale out a service on demand, but is it possible to automate this process when the nodes in a machine tier hit a certain level of utilization?

RE: Possible to automate scale-out of a service in VMM 2012?

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:22:45 GMT

You could use Monitor-Alert in an Opalis runbook and launch a scale-out operation using PowerShell within a runbook (or in the future using objects. A sample PowerShell script for the scale-out operation is available at

Implementing rapid scale-out of a machine tier in VMM 2012 via PowerShell

Documentation for the new Orchestrated Cluster Patching in VMM 2012?

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:00:15 GMT

I understand VMM 2012 supports orchestrated cluster patching and OpsMgr maintenance mode integration as of the RC? I cannot find the docs for this. Anyone have a pointer to the source?

RE: Documentation for the new Orchestrated Cluster Patching in VMM 2012?

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:33:31 GMT

Maybe this helps:
Managing Fabric Updates in VMM

-- Quote ---
VMM supports orchestrated updates of Hyper-V host clusters. When a VMM administrator performs update remediation on a host cluster, VMM places one cluster node at a time in maintenance mode and then installs updates. If the cluster supports live migration, intelligent placement is used to migrate virtual machines off the cluster node. If the cluster does not support live migration, VMM saves state for the virtual machines.
--- End of Quote --

Forums: Re: Is there going to be a refresh of OVMST for System Center 2012?

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:48:37 GMT

see http://www.systemcentercentral.com/Forums/tabid/60/indexid/90065/Default.aspx?tag=Forums+SCVMM

Is there going to be a refresh of OVMST for System Center 2012?

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:19:20 GMT

Does anyone know if ther is going to be a refresh of OVMST for System Center 2012?
Without it, it seems like we have quite a gap in the patch management strategy for offline VMs.

How to take a snapshot of an entire service in VMM 2012?

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:53:52 GMT

I managed to deploy a 2-tier service in VMM 2012 and am now trying to figure out how to snapshot the entire service at once via PowerShell. Has anyone tried this or have any suggestions wher to start?

RE: How to take a snapshot of an entire service in VMM 2012?

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:46:32 GMT

That would require a PowerShell script that recursively goes down the list of VMs within the machine tiers. If you did this, you'd want to have a plan in place to remove snapshots as soon as possible. Could be done with Orchestrator as well, or avoided entirely with image-based servicing, but that's not a good for all scenarios.

Is VMST supported with VMM 2012

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:26:36 GMT

Has anyone tried the Virtual Machine Servicing Tool with VMM 2012? I'd like to know if it should work before I spend time trying to set it up with the latest VMM release.

Forums: Re: Is VMST supported with VMM 2012

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:41:45 GMT

Have not seen an official announcement if VMST is going to get a refresh, but know it's much needed. This is an important piece of the overall patch strategy for sure...VMM 2012 for hosts, ConfigMgr for VM guests and VMST for offline VMs and templates.

Integration issue SCVMM 2008 r2 sp1 with SCOM 2007 R2CU4

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 19:32:42 GMT

Prior to installing SP1 on SCVMM I was able get reporting from the console for Host Utilization, Host Util Growth, etc. After installing SCVMM SP1 the report comes up but for all the report titles and headers it displays "#error". My scvmm management packs are up-to-date, I've re-registered the reporting URL. Anyone else run across this?!

Re: Integration issue SCVMM 2008 r2 sp1 with SCOM 2007 R2CU4

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:15:22 GMT

Coming late to the party, but we are having the exact same issue. I think we narrowed it down to an issue with how the management group GUID was getting parsed, the "-" seems to cause SQL to fail. Funny thing is, the text displays fine in the sub-reports, just not the main.

I'd love to hear if you solved this issue, or if anyone else has...

Forgot to mention, we have SCOM 2007R2 CU5, SQL 2008R2 SP1, and VMM 2008R2

Forums: Re: Is it possible to patch VMs with VMM 2012

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 03:56:14 GMT

Yes, definitely VMM 2012 update mgmt functionality is for host patching, not guest. VMM, ConfigMgr and VMST play complementary roles in patch management in a virtualized datacenter / private cloud infrastructure.

Is it possible to patch VMs with VMM 2012

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:45:58 GMT

Hey guys, I am reading the VMM 2012 RC documentation and trying to figure out exactly the limits of the patching functionality. Will it patch VMs managed by VMM 2012?