One new SCVMM Knowledge Base article for the week ending 04/18/2009

First published on TECHNET on Apr 20, 2009

We had one new System Center Virtual Machine Manager Knowledge Base article published last week.  This one is titled Description of the hotfix rollup package for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008: April 14th, 2009 and it details each of the fixes including:

Issue 1 When you migrate VMware virtual machines, the resource pools that are associated with the virtual machines are changed. Issue 2 Hyper-V virtual machines have a status of "unsupported cluster configuration" if a node in a Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster does not respond or has been restarted. Issue 3 Differencing disks are lost when the following conditions are true:

• You migrate a virtual machine from a Virtual Server host.
• Multiple virtual machines share the same parent virtual hard disk file.

Issue 4 The agent status is not updated for Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster nodes. Issue 5 Hyper-V virtual machines in a Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster have a status of "unsupported cluster configuration" if the cluster has a resource that has an MSCluster_Property_Resource_Cluster_Extension_XP_Type type. This resource type is typically used by storage replication software. Issue 6 If you add a Virtual Center server by using an account that is a member of the Enterprise Admins group, you receive the following error message when the refresh host job runs:

Error (2951) Virtual Machine Manager cannot complete the VirtualCenter action on server servername.domainname.com because of the following error: Login failed due to a bad username or password. (InvalidLogin).

This hotfix rollup also includes the fixes that are documented in the following Virtual Machine Manager 2008 update:

KB959596 - Description of the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 update to address physical to virtual (P2V) issues

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KB961983 - Description of the hotfix rollup package for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008: April 14th, 2009

Enjoy!

J.C. Hornbeck | Manageability Knowledge Engineer