Converting VM’s from VMware to Hyper-V in seconds (Part 1) Converting VM’s from VMware to Hyper-V in seconds (Part 2) Converting VM’s from VMware to Hyper-V in seconds (Part 3) In the previous 2 parts I explained what we can do with the Netapp conversion technology, in this part I will show how it’s done. […]
Author: Darryl
Set Operating System based on Integration Services information
“Why is the “Install Virtual Guest Services” greyed out on some VM’s?” Because you have not selected an Operating system in VMM. 🙂 The option is greyed out because VMM does not know the compatibility of the OS with intergration services. We had a bunch of VM’s with operating system “Unknown” and in the Hyper-V […]
Distribute Datasources
Ever came in the situation of a fast growing environment and your backup disks are getting fuller and fuller, till the point you need to move datasources to a new added disk? Well, I got sick and tired of moving datasources manually using MigrateDatasourceDataFromDPM.ps1, so I wrote a powershell script. You only need to edit […]
Converting VM’s from VMware to Hyper-V in seconds (Part 2)
Converting VM’s from VMware to Hyper-V in seconds (Part 1) Converting VM’s from VMware to Hyper-V in seconds (Part 2) Converting VM’s from VMware to Hyper-V in seconds (Part 3) This part we will configure the Netapp controller so you can use it to convert VM’s from a VMware environment to a Hyper-V environment. In […]
Converting VM’s from VMware to Hyper-V in seconds (Part 1)
Converting VM’s from VMware to Hyper-V in seconds (Part 1) Converting VM’s from VMware to Hyper-V in seconds (Part 2) Converting VM’s from VMware to Hyper-V in seconds (Part 3) Finally!!! A couple of months ago I started migrating from VMware to Hyper-v with frustrating speeds, 17MB/s, this is because of the file conversion which […]
Manually groom SCOM database
I’m having some problems with wrong data in the Performance view and decided to uninstall the client agent. But ofcourse the data is not instantly gone. The grooming of data in the database is done by daily schedule and the settings found under “Administration” > “Settings” > “Database Grooming”. Default it will delete performance data […]
Hyper-V / VMM MAC Addresses
In this post I’m going to talk about the MAC Address Pools in Hyper-V / VMM and the actual way they work. It seems easy to setup and never look at it again but this can cause some serious issues. There are many threads on technet forums about virtual machines changing MAC addresses and especially […]
VMM crashes when NIC team not completely up
Encountered some crashes today, after some troubleshooting I quickly found the issue, one of my NIC teams was not completely online. Log Name: VM Manager Source: Virtual Machine Manager Date: 8/23/2013 9:49:14 AM Event ID: 1 Task Category: None Level: […]
VMQ + Broadcom crashes servers
Yesterday I rebooted one of my hosts, and another host just crashed out of nowhere. After some diggin’ this event shows in the eventviewer: Event ID 113 Failed to allocate VMQ for NIC C777500C-AA7A-4F61-8862-0B8D09A2E967–A6F60352-0C31-4F30-9F27-F3FC8C1D5F87 (Friendly Name: VM) on switch DA1BEF5D-95DD-46FE-9E9E-43DE05FFCDDB (Friendly Name: Local). Reason – Maximum number of VMQs supported on the Protocol NIC is […]
Default printer problems and fix
We were experiencing some issues with customers and default printer changes. No matter what settings we use we still encountered change of default printer. Did some research and found that the NTUSER.DAT file seems corrupted, or something set wrong in the file. The NTUSER.DAT file is a registry file. Every user profile created on a […]
