General VMM Feedback
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scvmm service account
Service account - Name Change or ID change is a tedious task. Can you please fix the procedure to just change password or change service account in VMM without re installing VMM
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Help with SQL Account Issues
When you log in with an account that has RunAs Permissions, it creates an account for the user under the database. It is removed when the user logs out.
Since the user does not have a general SQL account, it is being flagged by security for a client as orphaned. As in, a user who does not have access to SQL suddenly has an account for the database. As a result, they have to submit a security exception.
They would like the account that does not exist in SQL to not be created
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Bug: SCVMM 2019, if you have a modal window open on the main console, the separate jobs console does not accept input
Bug: SCVMM 2019, if you have a modal window open on the main console, the separate jobs console does not accept input until the modal dialog is closed on the main console.
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In SCVMM please add an ICON on the Hyper V host that shows when the Host is in maintenance mode under the "VMs and Services view".
Currently under VMs and Services view, when a host is in maintenance mode there is no icon showing that. You have to click on the host and bring up a menu to see that it's in maintenance mode. It would be helpful if a icon showing the host was in maintenance mode appeared when you put the host in maintenance mode.
17 votes -
Enable nested virtualization for Self Service Users
Nested virtualization requires administrator or delegated administrator role to access.
Please allow this for the Self Service User role.8 votes -
VMM Plugin for Windows Admin Center
Would like to see a plugin In Windows Admin Center for SCVMM so that administrators can perform VM and Host Management tasks from a web based interface rather than depending on the MMC console.
Also it would enable self-servicing by giving the ability for delegated administrators or tenants to administer their own VMs and also create their own VMs under their clouds44 votes -
Can't enable Nested Virtualization from the SPF endpoint
Can't enable Nested Virtualization from the SPF endpoint
Suggesting to add a feature request.We are seeing a behavior where you are unable to enable Nested Virtualization from the SPF endpoint however you can perform this task using PS or the SCVMM console.
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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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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…23 votes -
Show uptime for host and virtual machine in the GUI
Make it possible to see or fade in the uptime of the hosts or virtual machines
22 votes -
SCVMM re-scan of Hyper V cluster to update its database
SCVMM gets itself in a mess, Cluster Manager knows were the VM's are SCVMM think's it knows and you get in a situation were you can't fix it. Its so frustration...
82 votes -
VMM library servers in multiple sites -> synchronization of content
That’s a major issue that there is no support for DFS-R to keep different VMM library servers in different sites in sync or up to date. If we can use DFS-R for it that would be a good step forward.
169 votesThis feature is being planned, will update once we start working on this.
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Multi select in UI
please add the ability to multiselct and do "anything" aka shutdown move and so on , having to select a vm at a time for some functions is very time consuming
121 votesThank you for your votes and support. We have updates to the Multi select Ui in VMM 2012 R2 UR6. For more information on UR6, please go to https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3050317/.
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Do not lock VMs in UI when a job is failed
We're discussed this but I want to say it again: it's VERY annoying to click Repair->Ignore every time...
112 votes -
storage classification
it would be useful that all the storage (iscsi, smb, fc etc) presented to a host and/or cluster and tagged with a classification to be summed and present a summary in Fabric>Storage>Classification and pools (size, available capacity, etc etc).
Now event the storage is tagged with a classification... no data is presented.6 votes -
give Console View in VMM the same options like in Hyper-V or FailoverCluster Manager
sometimes i need to use the console view to connect to the VMs desktop. But the console view in VMM is not as good as the viewer in FCM or Hyper-V manager.
Please make the console view the same as in the other management tools (i. e. Insert Integration Services disk, Start, Stop VM, etc.)59 votes -
VMM Dependency Report and Deletion Tool
Removing objects from VMM quickly becomes a nightmare with all dependencies. To quickly get an overview of the hierarchy and dependencies a VMM Dependency Report would be very helpful. Also interactively deleting objects taking into account dependencies could be an improvement here.
10 votesWe are planning on improving the deletion workflow for VMM networking artifacts.
Do you folks have specific examples where the workflow is sub-optimal? (apart form deletion of networking artifacts) -
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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VM and Hoststatus for Selfservice User -> Unknown
When using VMM with SelfService Users (SSU) the SSU can only see the virtual machine status (VMS) – the user is not able to see the host status itself. I.e. when the host is “host not responding” the SSU will see Status: Running and Virtual Machine Status: Running.
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VMM hides the host status and keeps the last known VMS. It’s the same story for Admins and Delegated Admins with one difference – the user is able to see the host status:
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It’s possible that a not responding host does not lead to an outage of the…
9 votes
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