I have been trying to get a P2V of a production system to use in our DR plan. I have limited opportunity to do this, because I am not allowed to impact performance during production hours for this system, and the definition of production hours is fairly broad. I have been trying for a couple… Continue reading P2V fails at Copy Hard Disk
Category: System Center
DPM does not remove expired recovery points
I have been using DPM for about 7 months now. (I tested with it for a few months before that.) I never installed 2006, but 2007 seems to be working ok. I have a few complaints, but I have complaints about all the backup software that I have ever used. None of it really makes… Continue reading DPM does not remove expired recovery points
Remove DPM agent from the DPM agent console
I blogged about this last year, but when I moved my blog, I lost part of the post (the picture) so I just deleted the post. Then I noticed that Google is still sending people here to find the answer, so… If you have DPM Protected Computer that goes away before you uninstall the agent,… Continue reading Remove DPM agent from the DPM agent console
New Features in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2
Of the new features coming in the R2 versions of Windows Server 2008 and SCVMM, I think these two are the obvious winners: Support for Live Migration: With Windows 2008 R2 adding support for Live migration, it’s now added as a new migration option in VMM R2. Live migration requires the source and destination host… Continue reading New Features in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2
Replica disk threshold exceeded, or Recovery Point Volume threshold exceeded
Great! :( Now what? Well, if you have a new DPM server and not a lot of protection groups created, and you haven’t been protecting anything much, you can just click on the link in the warning message that says “Allocate more disk space for replica…” That pulls up a pretty window that looks like… Continue reading Replica disk threshold exceeded, or Recovery Point Volume threshold exceeded
Preinstall DPM Client
If you deploy servers from an image, and you would like to install DPM prior to imaging, you can’t just use the install option from the DPM server. You CAN install the agent manually, and then configure it later. Copy the latest agent files from C:\Program Files\Microsoft DPM\DPM\Agents\RA and put them somewhere you can get… Continue reading Preinstall DPM Client
System Center Service Manager
When I first heard that Microsoft was going to release a “Service Desk” product, I was actually kind of excited. I heard about it at MMS in 2006 (I think) and the things that they were planning for their Service Desk product sounded really useful and even a bit forward thinking. Evidently, what they intended… Continue reading System Center Service Manager