Hello all,

I have a annoying problem with storage migration.

Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V and SCVMM 2012 R2, SAN storage, CSV volumes.

Error (12700)
VMM cannot complete the host operation on the <fqdn> server because of the error: Storage migration for virtual machine 'My VM' (78B1982B-69D4-4377-8BA8-C559391797E3) failed with error 'General access denied error' (0x80070005).

Migration did not succeed. Could not start mirror operation for the VHD file 'C:\ClusterStorage\Volume14\VMMDisks\MYVM_disk_1.vhdx' to 'C:\ClusterStorage\Volume6\MYVM_disk_1.vhdx': 'General access denied error'('0x80070005').
Unknown error (0x8001)

Recommended Action
Resolve the host issue and then try the operation again.

This happens only when migrating/moving individual disk/vhdx(allow VHDs to be placed individually) without moving configuration. If moving configuration at the same time with disks everything works just fine. I can even do a live migration from one cluster to another without problems..rtual machine configuration everything works just fine.

Is it not possible to install Library Server on a SCVMM Cluster Node? I am receiving 444 error when I am trying to install it?

Error is:

Error (444)
M02 is a VMM management server. A VMM management server cannot be associated with another VMM management server.

Recommended Action
Uninstall the VMM management server from M02 using Add or Remove Programs on M02 and try the operation again.

H,

I am installing SCVMM 2012 R2 using 12X1GB NIC (per host). I am little confused about the networking configuration- please guide me

The current design plan is connect (3x3)=6 (trunk)Network cards to different core switches.(Vlan based independent). Till here I am good.

Now my question is

How to configure additional network cards (6x1 GB)? My assumption is 2 (team)network cards for LM, 2(team) network cards for cluster and 2 (team) network cards for Host Management and we are using fiber channel for storage. Is this correct configuration?

 Do we need to create logical network for Live Migration, Cluster and Host Management in SCVMM console?

Can we just configure the LM, Cluster network and Host management from Host side without doing anything in scvmm console?

Assume if we create  a logical networks for LM, Cluster and Host management in SCVMM, do we need respective Vm networks in SCVMM because guest Vms are not  going to use this network and I don't want live migration, Cluster and Host Management  Vm network displaying while choosing the Vm network from guest

Do I need to create trunk ports for LM,cluster network and Host management? or access port?

Any help appreciated

I have SCVMM 2012 R2  and I wanna know if I should go directly to RU3 directly or install them on sequence

RU1--->RU2--> RU3

Hi

I'm getting following error on the VMM Server:

"Credentials are null for user:" from various Eventsources:

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Microsoft.SystemCenter.VirtualMachineManager.2012.Report.VNicUsageCollection
Date:          24.10.2013 08:44:26
Event ID:      25934
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      XXXX
Description:
Credentials are null for user: 


Log Name:      Application
Source:        Microsoft.SystemCenter.VirtualMachineManager.2012.Report.CloudUsageCollection
Date:          24.10.2013 08:49:27
Event ID:      25934
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      XXXX
Description:
Credentials are null for user: 

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Microsoft.SystemCenter.VirtualMachineManager.2012.Report.VMHostPowerStateCollections
Date:          24.10.2013 08:49:27
Event ID:      25938
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      XXXX
Description:
Credentials are null for user: 

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Microsoft.SystemCenter.VirtualMachineManager.2012.Report.VNicUsageCollection
Date:          24.10.2013 08:54:26
Event ID:      25934
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      XXXX
Description:
Credentials are null for user: 

VMM 2012 SP1 UR3

SCOM 2012 SP1 UR3

MP Version: 3.1.6011.0

Any advice?

So, in this article, it states:

"For a clustered host, either Windows Server-based or VMware-based, the default virtual machine path is a shared volume on the cluster that VMM automatically creates when you add the cluster as a host. When you add a clustered host, you cannot specify additional default paths in the Add Host Wizard. Also, after a host cluster is added, you cannot specify additional default virtual machine paths on thePlacement tab of the host properties."

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc917914.aspx

I also found this forum post, where he conceded that it was just impossible:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/systemcenter/en-US/d86eb2ed-c448-4e72-a983-240f28e9cdd4/unable-to-specify-default-vm-placement-path?forum=winserverhyperv

I have a CSV, "C:\ClusterStorage\Volume1\", and within that CSV a folder, in which all my virtual machines live, "C:\ClusterStorage\Volume1\Hyper-V". When I deploy a VM to a host, I can pick the placement path, and select "C:\ClusterStorage\Volume1\Hyper-V", however when I deploy a VM to a cloud, I have no option to pick placement path. I'd like to change my default placement path to be "C:\ClusterStorage\Volume1\Hyper-V", is this possible? I noted that the article said "Also, after a host cluster is added, you cannot specify additional default virtual machine paths on thePlacementtab of the host properties", I figured maybe that meant it was only changeable via powershell, so I executed the following command, and although it didn't throw any errors, it also didn't work:

$VMhost = Get-SCVMHost | ?{$_.name -eq "HOSTNAME.DOMAIN.LOCAL"}
Set-VMHost -VMHost $VMhost -VMPaths "C:\ClusterStorage\Volume1|C:\ClusterStorage\Volume1\Hyper-V"

I have another cluster with multiple CSV's, one is a RAID 10 for increased performance, if I want to differentiate one cloud to be a high performance cloud, I see no way to specify that VMs created in one cloud would go into one CSV, and that another cloud would go into the standard CSV? There must be a way to do this? Is my onlysolution to remove my nodes one at a time and re-add them after modifying the placement path?

I need to change this, because if I deploy VMs into a cloud, with multiple CSV's,I must be able to pick a CSV, otherwise this functionality seems unusable? What if I had Five CSV's for various purposes, and five clouds, would I have to destroy the cluster to fix this?

When installing VM from a VM templet it shows the error. 

Senario, This environment has 2 node cluster and we use ISCSI Target ad storage.

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Hi

right... please see attached screenshot for my problem..

As you can see... the windows is the usual size, but the server VM it is displaying is not showing as it should.. something has gone wrong with the display settings..

The only resolution I've found, is to restart the server.. which isn't really an option with this server... it will cause quite a lot of problems....

What can I do to fix this?

I've tried the obvious stuff like dragging the window to increase the size etc... stuff like that..

but it must be something on the server since it fixes it self when I reboot an affected server...

Has anyone else seen this?

and what can I do to fix it :)

Hi all,

I have been trying to deploy an OVA/OVF template VM into Hyper-V environment. I have a 2012 SP1 beta version of VMM installed.

I am trying to follow the procedure below to import OVF tool.

http://technet.microsoft.com/library/jj158932.aspx

Now, I am getting the following error while I try to add the OVFtoolsnapin.

Can anyone help me in figuring out the issue. I have followed the rest of the procedure accurately.

Thanks.

We're running SCVMM 2012 SP1 with CU1 on Windows 2008 R2 SP1. A handful of our hosts are showing this error

Error (20513)
The VMM management server cannot retrieve performance data for the computer VHOST1.mydomain.com. This issue may occur if the performance counter provider in the Virtual Machine Manager agent is corrupted.

Recommended Action
Restart the System Center Virtual Machine Manager Agent service on the computer NetVHB001.net.da.ocgov.com. This automatically restarts the performance provider. If the error persists, reinstall the VMM agent on the computer VHOST1.mydomain.com.

I've restarted the VMM service and uninstalled / reinstalled the Agent. Still seeing the errors. Is there another fix for this that someone has been successful with?

Orange County District Attorney

I keep getting a hard-coded computer name message in my service template design.  I am using the @name@ variable.  even when I use @computername@ or any other variable, it still gives me this error.  It worked initially, allowing me to supply a name at deployment but subsequently it insists that it has a hard-coded name.  When I do a deployment, the server is named WITH the @ symbols!

Also, I've tried to follow Greg Shields demonstration and TechNet article on creating a scale-out RDS server.  He uses @RDSFirstServerName@ but my service template limits the computer name field to 15 characters.  How is it he's able to get away with this and I can't?  Is it because he's using VMM 2012 and I'm using 2012 R2?  Or is there something I'm missing here to support longer variable names?

Jason Yates

One of the VM templates stored in a library had a few properties modified (Numlock, RAM, processor count) and after saving those changes, there are several tabs missing from the properties window.  I could not reproduce this on other VM templates.  Clones of this template also have the tabs missing. 

The missing tabs are OS Configuration, Application Configuration and SQL Server Configuration.

TFS 2012 lab management will not allow me to create an environment using this template, stating 'Domain User Name' is an not a valid property.

How do I get the missing tabs back?

Hi,

We're absolutely stumped over getting this message on some of our HP BL460c G6 hosts that we have rebuilt to Windows Server 2012 (a fully supported option).

We can add the host to SCVMM 2012 SP1 perfectly and all works well for a time and then the host goes into a "Host Not Responding" state in SCVMM.

Error (2912)An internal error has occurred trying to contact the hvbb3.jmu.ac.uk server: : .
WinRM: URL: [http://hvbb3.jmu.ac.uk:5985], Verb: [ENUMERATE], Resource: 
[http://schemas.microsoft.com/wbem/wsman/1/wmi/root/cimv2/Win32_PerfFormattedData_Tcpip_NetworkInterface], Filter: []Unknown error (0xc0000bbb)
Recommended ActionCheck that WS-Management service is installed and running on server hvbb3.jmu.ac.uk. For more information use the command "winrm helpmsg hresult". If hvbb3.jmu.ac.uk is a host/library/update server or a PXE server role then ensure that VMM agent is installed and running. 

The event log shows the following 2 entries:

Windows Management Instrumentation has stopped WMIPRVSE.EXE because a quota reached a warning value. Quota: HandleCount  Value: 111791 Maximum value: 4096 WMIPRVSE PID: 1044 Providers hosted in this process: C:\Windows\System32\wbem\WmiPerfClass.dll, %systemroot%\system32\wbem\wmiprov.dll, %systemroot%\system32\wbem\wmiprov.dll, %systemroot%\system32\wbem\wmiprov.dll, %systemroot%\system32\wbem\ntevt.dll, %systemroot%\system32\wbem\wmiprov.dll

followed by:

Fault bucket , type 0
Event Name: APPCRASH
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: vmmAgent.exe
P2: 3.1.6020.0
P3: 512f2c20
P4: vmmAgent.exe
P5: 3.1.6020.0
P6: 512f2c20
P7: c0000005
P8: 000000000033d50a
P9:
P10:

Attached files:

These files may be available here:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportQueue\AppCrash_vmmAgent.exe_55703a5dec99a965836cdab4419ce6aa4dd15_19152e99

Analysis symbol:
Rechecking for solution: 0
Report Id: 6c27aa58-b855-11e2-93f1-68b599b83954
Report Status: 4
Hashed bucket: 

I have followed every step in the article at:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2742246

I have also manually rebuilt the WMI repository and also the Performance Counters with no luck at all. It may work for 2-3 hours and then falls back into the problem.

This is all despite it being a completely clean build of windows and is happening on more than one of our HP G6 servers.

Can anyone help please?

Thanks,

Tim

Hi,

I am unable to add a user or group to an App Controller user role as I get the following error:

The user or group name is not valid please enter a user or group name in the format "domain\name"

Our NETBIOS domain name has an underscore in it (DOMAIN_LOCAL) which looks to be the problem (domain created before my time).

Is there any workaround for this issue?

Thanks,

Microsoft Partner

Hi,

I am using get-scperformancedata with Performance counter "NetworkIOReceived" and "NetworkIOSent".

But on client machine its failing with below error

Cannot validate argument on parameter 'Performance Counter'. The argument "NetworkIOReceived" does not belong to the set "CPUUsage,MemoryUsage,StorageIOPSUsage,NetworkIOUsage,PowerSavings" specified by the ValidateSet attribute. Supply an argument that is in the set and then try the command again.

Client is using same power shell version i.e 3.0 as I, but still its failing at client side.

What can be issue.

Everything is working fine at my end.

H,

I am installing SCVMM 2012 R2 using 12X1GB NIC (per host). I am little confused about the networking configuration- please guide me

The current design plan is connect (3x3)=6 (trunk)Network cards to different core switches.(Vlan based independent). Till here I am good.

Now my question is

How to configure additional network cards (6x1 GB)? My assumption is 2 (team)network cards for LM, 2(team) network cards for cluster and 2 (team) network cards for Host Management and we are using fiber channel for storage. Is this correct configuration?

 Do we need to create logical network for Live Migration, Cluster and Host Management in SCVMM console?

Can we just configure the LM, Cluster network and Host management from Host side without doing anything in scvmm console?

Assume if we create  a logical networks for LM, Cluster and Host management in SCVMM, do we need respective Vm networks in SCVMM because guest Vms are not  going to use this network and I don't want live migration, Cluster and Host Management  Vm network displaying while choosing the Vm network from guest

Do I need to create trunk ports for LM,cluster network and Host management? or access port?

Any help appreciated

Hello,

we are currently evaluating SC VMM and ran into a few problems, of them is is this:

When I try to add Updates into a baseline VMM is able to list the updates the first time.
When I close that baseline and try to add updates to another one, at the point where it should list the updates, the VmmAdminUI process goes into a loop collecting up to 2GB of memory, dropping down to 1GB and gathering memory again and finally crashing after 1 or 2 minutes.

This is reproducable in our environment and very annoying.
It's no difference wether I run the UI on the VMM Server or on my Client.

VMM in Programs and Features shows Version 3.2.7510.0, the UI shows 3.2.7634.0.

There is nothing visible in the eventlogs.

What can we do to fix this?

Thanks

Hi All,

I am setting up SCVMM 2012 R2 in a production environment. Whenever I restart the SCVMM virtual machine the VMM service doesn't start automatically, I have to manually start it. I checked the VMM logs and in the event viewer i find the below error,

Service cannot be started. Microsoft.VirtualManager.DB.CarmineSqlException: Unable to connect to the VMM database. Ensure that the SQL Server is running and configured correctly. ---> System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Cannot open database "VirtualManagerDB" requested by the login. The login failed. Login failed for user 'NXTRA\VMMSVC'. at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection, Action`1 wrapCloseInAction) at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning(TdsParserStateObject stateObj, Boolean callerHasConnectionLock, Boolean asyncClose) at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.TryRun(RunBehavior runBehavior, SqlCommand cmdHandler, SqlDataReader dataStream, BulkCopySimpleResultSet bulkCopyHandler, TdsParserStateObject stateObj, Boolean& dataReady) at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.Run(RunBehavior runBehavior, SqlCommand cmdHandler, SqlDataReader dataStream, BulkCopySimpleResultSet bulkCopyHandler, TdsParserStateObject stateObj) at System.Data.Sq...

I added the 'VMMSVC' account as db_owner and sysadmin and also NT_Authority\System with same permissions still the service doesn't start on the start up.

I googled a lot and I find the threads with the error containing "General failure" but not with the above. Can someone please help me to find out why this error is occuring.

Thanks,

Ravi

During a creation of a Template from an already Syspreped system it failed.  It's now just stuck in Sysprepping mode and will not allow me to delete it, repair it or start it.  All options are greyed out.  When I click on the VM it crashes the VMM Console.  I'm seeing event ID 1 and 19999. 

How do I remove this failed VM?

Joe Gomez