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Preconfigure Network Adapter in Physical Computer Profile
Configuring the network adapter of the bare-metal is configurable only after deep discovery has been made. like makeing the nic not registering with DNS option.
Physical Computer Profile mostly does alot of time, but only able to preconfigure the network adapter in detail.
3 votesunder review ·
AdminNagaraj Venkatesh (Product Manager - SCVMM)
(Product Manager - SCVMM, Microsoft System Center VMM)
responded
We are reviewing the feasibility of this feature.
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Integrate Container Management in SCVMM or Kubernetes Integration Board with SCVMM
Since Windows Server Container Support. It should be possible to create Containers and Hyper-V Containers with SCVMM. Also suggesting to integrate Kubernetes Management Board Integration into SCVMM since Kubernetes Support Windows Containers.
25 votes -
Enable Shared Nothing Live Migrations between Hyper-V Clusters using SOFS Clusters
In our setup a Hyper-V cluster does have it's own SOFS cluster, we have several of those clusters. So a one-to-one relationship is established between a Hyper-V Cluster and a SOFS Cluster.
SCVMM 2016 does not allow for VM's to be live-migrated between Hyper- V clusters while this was possible using SCVMM2012R2. This functionality disappeared magically in 2016. We really need this since we migrate VMs regularly between clusters.
For example; we do have local clusters and stretched clusters, we need to live migrate VMs between those for distributing load and SLA levels. The loss of this functionality is documented…16 votes -
Detect and allow KVP data exchange properties to be exposed as custom properties
We have specific properties that we pass up and down to the VM via KVP, such as 'managed custom properties' to add a 'add existing kvp attribute'. These can then be selected to show on the main view.
Currently, we have a non-trivial WMI script that queries and updates same-name VMM custom attributes with this data so we have a single pane of glass for these values
For example, typically for us we bring drive usage (to compare against VHDx size), escalation manager, and particular system component information up (particular result of a SQL query) to view within VMM so…
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Sort Storage Classifications by some meaningful order
When you go apply a classification to a VM's Virtual Disk in the GUI, the drop-down menu sorts things in an incoherent manner.
It appears that Get-SCStorageClassification also returns results in the same order.
It also does not appear to sort based on propreties ID, AddedTime, or ModifiedTime.
Can we at least get the VMM GUI to sort results? (Powershell can obviously be done manually.)
Image attached demonstrating issue.
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Checkpoints don't inherit VM owner, when another user creates it.
We have VMs with a Self-Service owner. When a different user creates a checkpoint on that VM, within the checkpoint properties, it shows that the checkpoint was "created by" the owner, not by the user that actually created it.
Can we have it so the Checkpoint creator's name is in the "created by" field instead of the VM owner?
1 vote -
DCR: Customer would like a better algorithm for calculating Overcommit
Customer is sometimes 'ok' state. And other times, 'overcommit' state, even without changes in environment.
SCVMM 2016 UR4, Standalone VMM environment of 12 Nodes.
He has 192 GB free when he calculates all his HOST's free memory including the reserve node's (R1).* What we might really need here is logging of how 'ok' and 'overcommit' was calculated so the toggle between both states is understood.
2 votes -
use offline domainjoin instead of unattend.xml
Currently VMM is using unattend.xml for domain joins for VMs and Hyper-V hosts. This contains having unencrypted passwords stored as cleartext at some points of time during the deployment.
We would prefer using offline domain join instead - as it was done for nano server in the past.
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scvmm vhd
When creating a VM from template in SCVMM, the disk name (vhd file) is named the same as the VM name. 1. This makes it match the directory the vhd file is in. 2. Saves a step which if it is missed creates a VHD the same as VHD stored in the library server ("bad"). 3. This will save "errors" if people forget to rename the VHD file prior to creating the VM.
Yes, yes automation with PowerShell or some other product can address this but this should be the default behavior in SCVMM. As if you just spin up…
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Make the failover cluster manager VM role names the same as they are named in VMM and Hyper-V
Currently when you create a VM in VMM it adds a prefix and suffix to the role name when created in Failover Cluster Manager. "SCVMM *ServerName* Resources" for example.
When I name a VM, I want the name to stay the same no matter where I am looking. (Hyper-V Manager, Failover Cluster Manager and VMM.) If I name a server "JoesWebServer" I don't want it to change in FCM to "SCVMM JoesWebServer Resources".
15 votes -
0 votes
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Default VHDX name for system disk during template deployment
When deploying a VM from a template, I rename the boot disk the template is made from to "system.<fullvmname>.vhdx" because I do not want the disk created as "<vmtemplatename>.vhdx. If there was a way to setup a rule to do this, it would be nice.
16 votes -
Add Additional Operating Systems for VMs
It would be great if the Operating System list was something the administrator could define, but in lieu of that, add FreeBSD and OpenBSD as additional OS options for VMs.
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User Voice
Much like Windows Admin Center, a suggestion I would like is in the VMM Help menu, to link directly to User Voice, for user feedback. This would be handy.
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Jobs Window Pop Ups
When creating somwthing like a VMNetwork, the jobs window always pops up, can we make a preference in systems to not open a jobs window by default.
1 vote -
allow wildcards
Powershell modules don't accept wildcard values, like Get-VM -Name 'M*', this is available in PowerCLI on ESX, and is frustrating that it is not available. I can do a filter for results, but I would love to see this added.
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VMM Library - get rid of "missing" items or offer a clean up after x days.
I find it frustrating when I'm moving a lot of resources around, to have to clear out the "missing" items from the library. Library should be just treated like file explorer essentially. When its gone, its gone. If people like a audit trail, the offer a "keep history for x days" then show as missing......for x days. That would be better.
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9 votes
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Potential Bug: Pushing a VMM Agent to an Infrastructure server existing certificate bindings are replaced
When pushing a VMM 2016 UR4 agent to an infrastructure server. If the infrastructure server has an existing certificate bound to HTTPS, example RDSGateway and Network Controller. The agent installation will remove the existing certificate binding when setting up BITS.
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The Enhanced Session opens in the background
When I'm switching from basic session mode to enhanced session, the VM Console is shown behind the main SCVMM UI
3 votes
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