VMM Library is the repository where are stored ISO, VHDX, answer files etc. This library is used by VMM to mount the ISO in a virtual machine, to deploy VM from VHDX or many others utilization. We will see in this topic how to manage multiple VMM library. Create a VMM Library To create a library, create a share of ...

Most of the time, when a Virtual Machine (VM) is deployed, there are some manual configuration as IP settings, System Center Agent parameters etc. Most settings can be set automatically but it take some time to prepare a template that enable fast deployment with the minimum of manual tasks. Prepare a good template enable also a reliable deployment because without ...

For the first time, I used in a real project IP Pool in Virtual Machine Manager 2012R2. Before that, I used as everyone a DHCP server or I set manually the IP addresses in network configuration. But this time I used IP Pools intensively to avoid these constraints. So in this topic I want to share you my happiness about ...

This week two colleagues (“Pitchou” and “Loulou”) and me stumbled on an VM Network issue in VMM 2012R2 with IPAM integration. All VM Subnets associated with IP Pools indicated “VM Subnet has been marked for deletion by the network administrator“. We realized that when we wanted to live migrate a virtual machine. When we were on rating host’s screen on ...

Bare-Metal Recovery (BMR) enables you to make a full protection of a machine. Usually BMR is used on servers. Thanks to BMR, even if a server crashes, you can restore it from a recovery point. The main advantage of BMR is that the restoration is performed very fast. In the example of this post, the restoration of a virtual domain ...

Recently, I was faced with this issue in Data Protection Manager 2012R2 (CU2) of my client. So to resolve this last I have had three solutions for the work around: Resize Recovery Partition Move shadow copy storage from Recovery Partition to C: volume Use Pre and Post backup script

Today I have installed and set Data Protection Manager 2012R2 (with Cumulative Update 2)for my client and when I have created a system state protection, I came across this error: The first known misconfiguration that raises this error is that Windows Server Backup feature is not installed on the protected server.

Before Windows Server 2008, passwords were only managed via the Default Domain Policy GPO. So only one password policy was possible without do-it-yourself. With Windows Server 2008, Microsoft introduces Password Settings Object (PSO) that enables to apply Fine-Grained password policy linked to users or groups object. However in Windows Server 2008, PSO could only be created with PowerShell command. In ...

Scale-Out File Server (SOFS) is a new feature of Windows Server 2012. This feature provides a file service for application (such as Hyper-V) in an active/active cluster thanks to SMB 3.0. Because this feature uses the Failover Clustering feature, some disks must be connected to each node to convert them in Cluster Share Storage (CSV). These disks can be connected ...

In Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) a private cloud is an entity where you specify an amount of computing resource (CPU, RAM, storage etc.) that you provide to users called tenant in VMM. When a cloud is created and available, some rights can be set on tenants such as create Virtual Machines (VM). So these last can use the private cloud ...