Both Cluster Management Pack and Virtual Machine Management Pack provide monitoring for Virtual Machine but from different perspective. In some situations the Cluster MP can be very noise as it is monitoring Resource Groups and Resources which could be down just because some virtual machines are shut down. Continue reading “Disable Discovery of Virtual Machine Resource Groups in Cluster MP”
Category: Windows
Error on Starting SMA Runbook from Third Party System
We’ve trying to use the SMA Web Service to start SMA runbooks from another system. There is good sample of code for this and we’ve managed to get it working. Unfortunately when we’ve started to start more runbooks some of them were failing with the following error: Continue reading “Error on Starting SMA Runbook from Third Party System”
Azure Site Recovery: Automatic VMM User Roles Assignment to VMs upon Failover
While I was playing with Azure Site Recovery I had scenario where I needed to assign VMM User Role to the VMs that were being replicated to the replica site. To be more specific you have VMM server on Primary Site and another VMM server on Replica Site and you are using ASR to take care for the mapping and failover tasks. Continue reading “Azure Site Recovery: Automatic VMM User Roles Assignment to VMs upon Failover”
Authentication Error has Occurred (Code : 0x607) on Remote Console After you Apply UR4 for SPF 2012 R2
If you are applying Update Rollup 4 for System Center Service 2012 R2 Service Provider Foundation and you have have configured Remote Console to use IPv4 by using this solution (by Marc van Eijk) you may receive the following error when you try to connect to VM:
An authentication error has occurred (Code: 0x607). Continue reading “Authentication Error has Occurred (Code : 0x607) on Remote Console After you Apply UR4 for SPF 2012 R2”
VMM WSUS Synchronization Gets Broken When You Install ASR Provider
Consider the following scenario:
- You have VMM Server 2012 SP1 or R2 Installed
- You have added WSUS server in your VMM Server to synchronize updates. The WSUS server is using Proxy to connect to Windows Update.
- You’ve installed and configured Azure Site Recovery Provider on the VMM server. The Provider is configured to use the same proxy as WSUS server. Authentication to proxy is based on computer rather than user.
- When you try synchronize VMM with WSUS, VMM tries to connect to the WSUS server trough the proxy used by ASR provider and job fails with the following text:
Continue reading “VMM WSUS Synchronization Gets Broken When You Install ASR Provider”
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