Installing SCVMM 2012 Beta 2

This year is going to be a big one for System Center, with a whole raft of major product updates scheduled to be released later during 2012. Microsoft TechEds the world over are going to be chock-a-block with some excellent, and hopefully very exciting announcements and hands-on labs.

To get things rolling in my own […]

April 5th, 2011 | Tags: , , | Category: Hyper-V, SCVMM, SCVMM 2012, System Center | 4 comments

Upgrading to SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1

Microsof recently announced the final release of System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 R2 SP1. This service pack release provides support for Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX – features which were added to Hyper-V with Server 2008 R2 SP1.

Because my home Hyper-V system makes heavy use of Dynamic Memory, I’ve been running the RC […]

March 28th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Dynamic Memory, Hyper-V, SCVMM, Windows 7/Server 2K8 R2 SP1, Windows Server 2008 R2 | Leave a comment

Running a virtual Domain Controller

One of the things I’ve been prevaricating about with the new Hyper-V system at home is whether or not to join the host server to the virtual DC which in turn hosts the Active Directory forest and domain for the lab environment.

Running a virtual DC in either a production or a lab environment isn’t […]

March 18th, 2011 | Tags: , | Category: Active Directory, DPM, Hyper-V, SCVMM, Windows Server 2008 R2 | 5 comments