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SCVMM Admin Console crashes when you have a VM configured with 3 virtual processors : HOTFIX

June 10, 2010 Leave a comment
 
SCVMM Administrator’s Console Rollup

Attention :

Restart requirement

After you apply this hotfix, you must restart the computer.

List of issues that are resolved:
  • If a VM is configured to have 3 virtual processors, the SCVMM Admin Console crashes.

    Note
    To resolve this issue, install the hotfix rollup package 982522 that is a hotfix rollup package for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 and then this hotfix rollup package.  
  • This hotfix rollup package also resolves the issues that are documented in the following SCVMM 2008 R2 Admin Console update:
    976246 When you remove a virtual hard disk from a virtual machine in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2, the .vhd file on the Hyper-V server is deleted without warning
How to obtain the SCVMM 2008 R2 Admin Console hotfix rollup package

This hotfix rollup package is available on Microsoft Update.
To obtain this update from Microsoft Update, follow these steps on computers that have the SCVMM Admin Console installed:

  1. Click Start, and then select Control Panel.
  2. In Control Panel, double-click Windows Update.
  3. In the Windows Update window, click Check Online for updates from Microsoft Update.
  4. Click important updates are available.
  5. Select Update for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 (KB982523), and then click OK.
  6. Click Install updates.

To manually download the hotfix rollup package from the Microsoft Update Catalog, visit the following Microsoft website:

http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=982523

To manually download the hotfix rollup package from the Microsoft Update Catalog, visit the following Microsoft website:

To install this hotfix rollup package that can be downloaded from the Microsoft Update Catalog on the Virtual Machine Manager server, follow these steps:

  1. Extract the VmmClient32Update.cab or VmmClient64Update.cab file to a temporary directory.
  2. Open an elevated command prompt, type the following command for the 32-bit package, and then press ENTER to install the update:
    msiexec /update vmmClient32Update.msp BOOTSTRAPPED=1

    Note For the 64-bit package, type the following command:

    msiexec /update vmmClient64Update.msp BOOTSTRAPPED=1

Hotfix rollup package information

Prerequisites

To apply this hotfix, you must have SCVMM Admin Console installed.

 

 

Categories: Virtualization

SCVMM 2008 R2 Rollup

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List of issues that are resolved:SCVMM Server Rollup

Issue 1: A high availability virtual machine with a GPT pass-thru disk is reported is reported as “Unsupported Cluster Configuration.” 

Issue 2: When you manage VMware Virtual Center that has distributed switches, the Virtual Machine Manager service (Vmmservice.exe) crashes.

Issue 3: After Quick Storage Migration is completed, the Failover Cluster Management MMC snap-in reports that the VM still uses the old CSV volume.

Issue 4: If a VM is configured with 3 virtual processors, the SCVMM Admin Console crashes.

Issue 5: The settings for the virtual network are incorrect after a Refresh-VMHost cmdlet job is completed.

How to obtain this SCVMM 2008 R2 hotfix rollup package

This hotfix rollup package is available on Microsoft Update.
To obtain this update from Microsoft Update, follow these steps on the Virtual Machine Manager server:

  1. Click Start, and then select Control Panel.
  2. In Control Panel, double-click Windows Update.
  3. In the Windows Update window, click Check Online for updates from Microsoft Update.
  4. Click important updates are available.
  5. Select Update for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 (KB982522), and then click OK.
  6. Click Install updates.

Note If the Virtual Machine Manager or Virtual Machine Manager Agent service is running when the hotfix rollup package is installed on the Virtual Machine Manager server, you have to restart the computer

To manually download the hotfix rollup package from the Microsoft Update Catalog, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=982522

Categories: Virtualization

Great news for Web Hostings : Dynamic Memory : versions supported

June 9, 2010 Leave a comment
 
As we know, Microsoft is going to release the Dynamic Memory in Windows 2008 R2 SP1
 
Microsoft will release the Windows 2008 R2 SP1 beta with Dynamic Memory support only for enterprise and datacenter versions but the RTM version, will support all versions, including Standard and Web.
 
This is a really great news, specially for Web hosting companies, due to licenses costs.
 
And more, not only the web and standard versions of Windows 2008 R2 will be supported but also Windows 2008 and Windows 2003.
 
I could say that this will help the server consolidation and the adoption of the Hyper-V by Web Hosting Companies.
 
Here are the details :
 

 Windows 2008 R2 guests will need to have SP1 installed to use standard or web versions

Windows 2008 guests will need to have a separate (yet to be released) hotfix

Windows 2003/2003 R2 guests will be suported

 

Categories: Virtualization