VirtualCenter

December 29, 2008 | No comments

Wow, System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM) sure plays rough with VirtualCenter vCenter.  I found that every time I restart the SCVMM server it kills all VI Client connections. That is not very nice.  But then again, neither was deleting my ESX templates.

December 9, 2008 | 1 comment

When using System Center Virtual Machine Manager to manage VMware ESX, VMs are removed from their resource pools during migration with VMotion.

November 20, 2008 | No comments

Duncan at Yellow Bricks has a handy post on cleaning up your VI Client cached server address list. There is a related issue with cached self-signed SSL certificate thumbprints.  When you first connect to a VirtualCenter Server or ESX host, you see a dialog box:

November 20, 2008 | 4 comments

I recently had the opportunity to attend a two-day Microsoft training class on Hyper-V and SCVMM 2008.  This was a typical Microsoft course with hands-on labs and was billed as a Technical Deep-Dive – whatever that means. I was particularly interested in PRO Tips, which is consistently mentioned as a key benefit of SCVMM.  It is [...]

November 14, 2008 | 2 comments

The VI Client (vSphere Client) accepts several command-line arguments that can help administrators automate logging in to vCenter or ESX.

November 12, 2008 | 4 comments

In my ongoing probe of the newly-released System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM), I have stumbled across something that stuck me as more than just a little hypocritical. First, some background: Microsofties have gone out of their way this year to emphasize that environments with multiple VMware VirtualCenter Servers are in great pain.  A pain [...]

November 1, 2008 | No comments

VMware has released a new whitepaper that covers best practices for Update Manager, a product that is included with VirtualCenter Server.

October 31, 2008 | 8 comments

VirtualCenter/vCenter administrators need to be aware of the fact that templates are completely deleted from the ESX datastore when using SCVMM "import" feature.

October 29, 2008 | No comments

Both VMware VirtualCenter and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) come in an entry-level edition for sites that are not yet at enterprise deployment levels.  VMware calls their offering Foundation and Microsoft’s is Workgroup Edition.  Similarly, both vendors also offer free, time-limited evaluations of their enterprise products.