SCVMM in multi-forest environments
In this article I’m going to highlight some of the most common multi-forest scenarios you may have to deal with operating a System Center Virtual Machine Manager. The official Technet documentation...
View ArticleHow to return unused IP Addresses to Pools in SCVMM
It’s common to create and dispose / delete lots of virtual machine in an automated private cloud. SCVMM comes with it’s own implementation of a tiny DHCP-Server like service. The feature allows the...
View ArticleEnrich SCVMM using Custom Properties
SCVMM does provide ten default custom properties (CustomProperty1-10). Like the custom properties of an AD object, objects in VMM can be enriched with information by adding data to those properties....
View ArticleHow to manually remove a Host / Cluster from SCVMM 2012 SP1
Before you read further here, As far as I’ve worked with SCVMM 2012 SP1 RU4 and SCVMM 2012 R2 now, the issue seems to be fixed in those releases. The story of a bad day Sometimes things go wrong,...
View ArticleHow to change Subnet / VLanID on an existing Logical Network Definition in SCVMM
A lot of people are still using VLAN based isolation for their Software defined Network in System Center Virtual Machine Manager. Although you have 4096 VLanIDs to assign, sometimes things have to be...
View ArticleSCVMM Setup fails at post processing step: “server name could not be resolved”
Some times things go wrong and sh** hits the fan. But in my case I was pretty sure I’m doing everything correctly when installing a HA SCVMM Cluster. So almost at the end of the SCVMM Server setup...
View ArticleSCVMM / Converged Network Setup and duplicate MAC Addresses explained
In this post I’m not going through the topic why you should use a software defined network architecture (SDN), there are plenty of posts out there explaining why THIS is the way to go. Instead I’ll...
View ArticleSMA Runbook to update SCVMM R2 UR3 DHCP Server Extension on all Hyper-V Hosts
Some weeks ago Microsoft released Update Rollup 3 for System Center 2012 R2. Part of this RU, SCVMM components also got updated. This time, unfortunately it was not sufficient to update the SCVMM...
View ArticleWhen SCVMM baremetal host deployment fails at early stages
After recently updating a customer’s HP Blade environment to the current firmware release, Hyper-V baremetal deployment stopped working. The environment is managed via HP OneView. HP OneView is a linux...
View ArticleGuidance for a SCVMM / Hyper-V deployment in a locked down, multi-forest...
This is a “lessons learned” post and a follow up to an earlier post on “SCVMM in multi-forest environments” to keep others away from “trial and error” when integrating SCVMM with Hyper-V in a secured...
View ArticleApply changes to virtual Port Profiles in SCVMM
If you use Logical Network / Logical Switch capabilities in SCVMM, and you hopefully do so ;-), then you might want to change virtual port profile / uplink port profile settings from time to time....
View ArticleSCVMM 2016 UR3 is out
After we had the possibility to pre-test the UR3 early bits, it has now been officially released. Update Rollup 3 for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2016 includes several fixes and enhancements....
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