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SCVMM custom VM properties extended
One day I was working on our fabric and thought it would be nice to be able see which Logical Switch each VM was connected to. So I started to extend my good old datastores script and before I knew it, it had morphed out of control to include Logical Switch, Logical Networks, VM Networks and NIC count. In most enterprise environments this probably wouldn’t really add much value, but in the world of multi-tenancy with many shared or customer dedicated clusters an networks, having this kind of information easily available has it’s advantages. -
SCVMM Standalone to Highly Available – what you need to consider…
So you have a standalone instance of SCVMM and you want to make it highly available. Firstly, well done for recognizing the important of SCVMM and embarking on this journey There are many guides out there on the step by step so I won’t reinvent the wheel here. What I will do though is give you some things to think about that have caught out some of my clients along the way… -
Installing Azure Site Recovery Agent (i.e. running an exe/script) on a Hyper-V host using SCVMM
From time to time I have the requirement to deploy/update a basic app or run a script on my Hyper-V hosts. This is relatively simple using remote PS session or if you have SCCM managing your fleet. But sometimes you need to just push something out fast and luckily SCVMM can assist. My use case is to run an update for the Microsoft Site Recovery Services Agent on my hosts. I would do this periodically. -
Another S2D build blog... with a SCVMM twist (public draft)
WORK IN PROGRESS Editors Note: this is still a working document as my priorities have to be on other work right now, but in the interest of sharing I have made this available now… If you find any issues or errors let me know - thanks for reading! There are many S2D build blogs out there and I don’t want to just add to the list but given I’m doing this build with SCVMM and SCOM integration I thought I’d run through the additional steps. -
SCVMM console crashes when opening VM host properties
Error: “VMM cannot use [Logical Switch] to create a virtual switch a there are no uplink port profile sets present on this logical switch” Environment: SCVMM 1801. Symptom, right click on a Hyper-V host and after a couple of seconds the below error. After clicking OK, VMM crashes. The fix that worked for me. First check the host group of the problematic hosts. In this deployment, they live in host group “Tenant HCI”