Month: October 2011

Remove vCenter from SCVMM


To remove a VMware VirtualCenter server from VMM In Administration view of the VMM Administrator Console, click Virtualization Managers. In the results pane, select the VirtualCenter server that you want to remove. In the Actions pane, under Virtualization Manager, click Remove. In Host Group view, right click the host group that contained the vCenter cluster … Continue reading Remove vCenter from SCVMM →

PowerShell: List the Hyper-V VM VHD Location


The following PS script is to query the VHD location of each VM running on the hosts listed in the C:\scripts\Hyperv_Hosts.txt file. cls cd "c:\Scripts" $HyperVParents = Get-Content Hyperv_Hosts.txt Foreach ($HyperVParent in $HyperVParents) { $VMManagementService = Get-WmiObject -class "Msvm_VirtualSystemManagementService" -namespace "root\virtualization" -ComputerName $HyperVParent $VMs = Get-WmiObject -Namespace "root\virtualization" -ComputerName $HyperVParent -Query "Select * From Msvm_ComputerSystem … Continue reading PowerShell: List the Hyper-V VM VHD Location →

SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1 Server Naming Issue


My colleague found that – SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1 does not like to be installed in a server with ‘-’ in the server name. And someone had the exact same issue described as here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/virtualmachingmgrsetup/thread/46fd012d-f5ac-4025-aac1-29f62f1c6124/ More info about installing SCVMM 2008: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc764327.aspx  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc764295.aspx