One of the cool new features in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 was the addition of Generation 1 and Generation 2 virtual machines. Benefits I’ve seen listed for Generation 2 virtual machines include a faster boot time, fewer devices, and boot from SCSI virtual drive. The idea is interesting, but I was curious…
Effective this year MMS will be merging with TechEd (this was announced at http://blogs.technet.com/b/in_the_cloud/archive/2013/10/01/what-s-next-for-mms.aspx). This may be a tough integration as MMS has a long history and an existing culture. I have been pondering this for a little while and came up with some suggestions which I will summarize below as my MMS 5×5 plan.…
During an upgrade from Windows 2012 to Windows 2012 R2 I ran across a setting called “Availability” for the VM. High availability is available in a host cluster and is documented at: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc967323.aspx “Highly available virtual machines, also known as HAVMs, can easily be migrated to a different virtual machine host in a failover cluster…
With the release of Windows 2012 R2, my primary goal was to upgrade my lab environment to gain the new features available in Windows 2012 R2 (including tiered storage, enhanced deduplication, generation 2 vm’s and dynamic memory enhancements). My first upgrade was for a single server upgrade for my SMB file share server and…
The following blog post was written by Brett Boone. Thank you for sharing this with the community Brett! The following blog posts discusses the process to upgrade from Operations Manager 2012 SP1 to Operations Manager 2012 R2. This blog post also shows the steps required to integrate the new System Center Advisor functionality available with…
If you have been using Operations Manager 2012 for a little while you have probably had that moment when you log into your servers on a Monday morning and see a plethora of new warning alerts related to fragmentation levels on drives. This is one of those items that generates a lot of alerts and…
It’s hard to believe, but it’s not too long until SCU 2014! My first road trip (other than SCU DACH of course!) is to this year’s home for SCU: Houston Texas! I’ll be at the Houston HASMUG event tomorrow. If you are in town stop by to check out the presentation and bring with your…
The following is the results of my lab environment’s upgrade of my first Hyper-V host from Windows Server 2012 to Windows Server 2012 R2. The following is the step-by-step experiences that I had upgrading my first host system to Windows Server 2012 R2. To start the installation I mounted the ISO for Windows Server 2012…
There is a whole slew of updated management packs which Microsoft has released. Information on the recent round of updated management packs is available at: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/16174.microsoft-management-packs.aspx. The summary of October updated management packs includes: SQL Server 6.4.1.0 10/14/2013 System Center 2012 Service Manager 7.5.3079.0 10/18/2013 System Center 2012 R2 Service Reporting 7.2.68.0 10/18/2013 Windows…
The following is the results of my lab environment’s upgrade from Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1 to Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2. Please pardon any typos and the lack of polish on this blog post – my goal is to get the information out quickly based upon what I’ve seen so far. The first step…
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