When preparing a System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager (4.0.1662.0) environment for bare-metal deployment I walked into the following issue when adding the PXE server. This VMM installation is highly available, in other words: Clustered. Issue Error in VMM: Error (21150) Failed to customize WinPE Image. Recommended Action Verify that Virtual Machine Manager and […]
Category: VMM
VMM Logical Network representation
Long long ago, when the year was 2015, I created a VMM Logical Network representation to understand VMM networking better. Never posted it…. but here it is: DOWNLOAD VISIO: Logical Network
VMM Logical Switch – Unknown error (0x80078005)
Walked into this issue when trying to deploy a logical switch from Virtual Machine Manager: Error (2912) An internal error has occurred trying to contact the ‘Cluster1-Node1’ server: : . WinRM: URL: [http://Cluster1-Node1:5985], Verb: [INVOKE], Method: [GetFinalResult], Resource: [http://schemas.microsoft.com/wbem/wsman/1/wmi/root/scvmm/AsyncTask?ID=1001] Unknown error (0x80078005) Recommended Action Check that WS-Management service is installed and running on server ‘Cluster1-Node1’. […]
Error 803 Virtual Machine Already Exists
I copied a virtual machine and imported it again in Hyper-V using a Unique ID. When refreshing the host in Virtual Machine Manager I hit the error below: Error (803) Virtual machine Darryl ASR already exists on the virtual machine host other cluster nodes Recommended Action Specify a new name for the virtual machine, and […]
Get-MgmtSvcRelyingPartySettings bug fixed
In Windows Azure Pack UR4 I discovered a bug concerning the Get-MgmtSvcRelyingPartySettings cmdlet. I’m proud to say this is fixed in the upcoming UR5 release which also contains the following features and bugfixes: – Differencing disks are now optional in the VM Role when used with VMM UR5. (This got the fourth highest number of […]
Scale-Out File Server – DNS Settings
Scale-Out File Servers (SOFS) is a feature that is designed to provide scale-out file shares that are continuously available for file-based server application storage such as Hyper-V. Scale-out file shares provide the ability to share the same folder from multiple nodes of the same cluster. In this blog we will go deeper into DNS Settings […]
The configuration registry database is corrupt (0x800703F1)
Got the following error when creating a VM template in Virtual Machine Manager: Error (2912) An internal error has occurred trying to contact the vmms01 server: : . WinRM: URL: [http://vmms01.mgmt.local:5985], Verb: [INVOKE], Method: [LoadSubkey], Resource: [http://schemas.microsoft.com/wbem/wsman/1/wmi/root/scvmm/P2VSourceFixup?RegFileName=C:\Users\SVC_VMM\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp6AB5.tmp] The configuration registry database is corrupt (0x800703F1) Recommended Action Check that WS-Management service is installed and running on […]
Windows Azure Pack Update Script
Yesterday UR4 for Windows Azure Pack was released. Download here: http://support2.microsoft.com/kb/2992027 So when downloading you need to select the download location and let the downloader do his job. All the downloads will be stored in separate folders, and in this folder you will find the CAB file needed. You will need to extract every single […]
Force Install Updates on Remote Computer
Microsoft does not give the functionality to Install Updates on Remote Computer out of the box, ofcourse there are some 3rd party tools but… This powershell script will give you the ability to install windows updates on a remote computer without 3rd party programs. The script will remotely create a scheduled task on the given […]
Out-of-Band Management in a Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Environment
In this post we will discuss Out-of-Band Management of virtual machines running on Hyper-V, and a glimpse into the future. Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 R2 has a large number of significant improvements, but there’s a new feature called Guest Services that hasn’t been much in the spotlight yet. I’ll provide a quick overview of […]