Larry Rayl
Larry is a Senior Consultant at Catapult Systems and blogs on System Center products, Server Core, Clustering and Application Packaging. Larry currently holds certifications in Virtualization, Hosting, Enterprise Server and Desktop Administration.
May 202013

Configuring the System Center 2012 SP1 VMM SQL Analysis Services Integration with Operations Manager 2012 SP1

I was in the process of configuring the OpsMgr / VMM integration and needed to turn on the SQL Analysis Services component for the integration. The Setup for the Operations Manager Integration is pretty simple, the challenge is getting SQL Analysis ...[Read more]
Published: 5/20/2013  9:07 PM | 0  Comments | Categories: Hyper-V, Clustering, SCVMM, System Center 2012, Windows Server 2012

May 202013

Using Windows Update to update System Center SP1 Operation Manager to UR2 running on Windows 2012

I was recently working with Cameron Fuller (http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/default.aspx) and we decided to give Windows Update a try to get new a new OpsMgr Installation updated to the currently release before we started pushing OpsMgr Age ...[Read more]
Published: 5/20/2013  6:57 PM | 0  Comments | Categories: SCOM, System Center 2012, Windows Server 2012

May 162013

How to correct the incorrect file names for the System Center 2012 SP1 Operations Manager OperationsManagerDW when installing on Windows 2012 with SQL 2012 SP1 also on Windows 2012

After the installation of Operations Manager 2012 SP1 on a SQL 2012 SP1 Database Server, with both the Database Server and the Operations Manager Server running on Windows 2012; the Operations Manager Data Warehouse DB files are now getting named DA ...[Read more]
Published: 5/16/2013  12:53 PM | 0  Comments | Categories: System Center 2012, Windows Server 2012, SCOM

May 142013

Tips and Tricks for SC 2012 SP1 VMM - Fix for the Upper and Lower Case host listings

Hello again to all my fans around the world! Here is a quick and easy fix for your VMM 2012 installs that show upper and lower case hosts. I get this question all the time and though I would dig into it a little bit. At first I though it was a DNS ...[Read more]
Published: 5/14/2013  10:04 PM | 0  Comments | Categories: Hyper-V, SCVMM, System Center 2012, Windows Server 2012

Feb 252013

Setting up and using the new System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Analyzer

The System Center (SC) 2012 SP1 Configuration Analyzer was recently released on February 22, 2012. The new Configuration Analyzer is a diagnostics tool to evaluate configuration settings for computers running any of the System Center 2012 SP1 compon ...[Read more]
Published: 2/25/2013  10:24 PM | 0  Comments | Categories: System Center 2012

Feb 042013

SCOM VMM Integration - How to correct the not monitored diagram and distributed application view

Over the past week, I got some time to work with Maarten Goet, President of OpsLogix (www.opslogix.com). Maarten is a SCOM MVP out of the Netherlands and we took a look at the issue with the VMM SCOM 2012 diagram view. We came up with a workaround s ...[Read more]
Published: 2/4/2013  1:11 PM | 1  Comment | Categories: SCVMM, SCOM, System Center 2012

Nov 132012

System Center 2012 Operations Manager (SCOM) Visio Stencil

Today at a client site, we (Cameron, Blake and I) started to look all over the web for an RMSe Visio object and didn't have much luck. So I ended up creating a new RMSe object and in the process, updated the OpsMgr 2007 Visio Stencil to OpsMgr 2012. ...[Read more]
Published: 11/13/2012  6:30 PM | 0  Comments | Categories: SCOM, Visio Stencils

Sep 302012

How to Convert VHD virtual drives to VHDX with Windows 2012 Hyper-V Manager and System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager SP1

Recently I was assisting with a presentation on System Center 2012 and Windows 2012 at a conference and was asked if you can convert a virtual machine disk from VHD new the new VHDX format with Windows 2012. In case you were wondering as well, the a ...[Read more]
Published: 9/30/2012  12:52 PM | 0  Comments | Categories: Hyper-V, SCVMM, Windows Server 2012

Apr 072012

VMM 2012 – Error 2927 transferring VM to another Host

I had just installed two new Hyper-V hosts (non-clustered) and installed SC 2012 Virtual Machine Manager and was testing functionality. Whenever I tried to move a VM from one host to the other, I received error 2927 – A Hardware Management error has ...[Read more]
Published: 4/7/2012  2:02 PM | 0  Comments | Categories: SCVMM

Mar 112012

Windows Server 8 Beta – Switching between Core and GUI

Most Servers can be easily setup with Core, but lets face it, the GUI is a lot easier. Especially when it comes to configuring NICs and setting up things such as binding order, Jumbo Frames, etc. for a Hyper-V configuration. Starting with Windows 8, ...[Read more]
Published: 3/11/2012  12:03 PM | 3  Comments | Categories: Windows 8 Server "Beta", Server Core

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