Category Archives: SCVMM

How Does VMM Place Virtual Machines?

Posted on November 24, 2011 by niall

Intelligent Placement looks like one of those topics that will inevitably pop-up in the 70–659 exam. On his blog, Irish MVP Aidan Finn  discusses Intelligent Placement — an algorithm used by Virtual Machine Manager to decide where to place virtual machines in your … Continue reading →

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Hyper-V MAC Addresses

Posted on November 22, 2011 by niall

When a new virtual machine is created, the MAC address for it is either taken from a MAC address pool on the Hyper-V server or from the SCVMM server.

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VMM Firewall Ports

Posted on November 22, 2011 by niall

When you install the System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) server, you can assign some of the ports that it will use for communications and file transfers between the VMM components. While it is a best security practice to change … Continue reading →

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Deploying the VMM Agent

Posted on November 21, 2011 by niall

A VMM Agent must be installed on a Hyper-V host, before System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 (SCVMM) can manage that host. When you add a virtual machine host or library server that is in an AD DS domain, VMM … Continue reading →

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