Top Support Solutions for System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager

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Top Microsoft Support solutions for the most common issues experienced when you use System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (updated quarterly).

1. Solutions related to the Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) Console Failures:

• Changing the owner of a VM in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager causes the console to become unresponsive
• The System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager console terminates unexpectedly with NullReferenceException
• Error ID 1602 occurs and the Microsoft System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager Console does not start
• VMM 2012 Self-Service users cannot open a console session to a virtual machine
• Troubleshooting: The VMMSERVICE crashes multiple times a day and/or the SCVMM Console takes a long time to open
• Troubleshooting System Center 2012 - Virtual Machine Manager
• System Center 2012 - Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) General Troubleshooting Guide
• The VMM service crashes when a virtual machine is refreshed - "Error converting data type int to smallint”
• The VMMService service crashes after you add an ESX or ESXi cluster

2. Solutions related to Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) Service Failures:

• The VMMService service crashes after you add an ESX or ESXi cluster
• KB: Changing the owner of a VM in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager causes the console to become unresponsive
• KB: The VMM service crashes when a virtual machine is refreshed - "Error converting data type int to smallint”
• The Virtual Machine Manager Service crashes when you add a virtual machine host that has more than 16 logical processors in VMM 2008 R2
• Troubleshooting: The VMMSERVICE crashes multiple times a day and/or the SCVMM Console takes a long time to open - System Center: Virtual Machine Manager Engineering Team Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs
• Troubleshooting System Center 2012 - Virtual Machine Manager
• System Center 2012 - Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) General Troubleshooting Guide

3. Solutions related to add or remove server and cluster:

• How to troubleshoot issues when adding a Hyper-V host in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager
• Adding and Managing Hyper-V Hosts and Scale-Out File ...
• Working Through an Unsupported Cluster Configuration Scenario in Virtual Machine Manager - System Center: Virtual Machine Manager Engineering Team Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs
• Error 2927 when you add a Hyper-V server or a Hyper-V cluster node in System Center VMM - System Center: Virtual Machine Manager Engineering Team Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs
• KB: "Error 26184" when you assign a LUN to a cluster in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1
• SCVMM 2012- Creating a Highly Available VMM Server
• How to troubleshoot the “Needs Attention” and “Not Responding” host status in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager

4. Solutions related to VMM installation

• Installing the System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager VMM Management Server fails with IndyPlacementHelper exception error
• Installation Logs for System Center 2012 - Virtual Machine Manager
• "HostAgentBadSharePathname" error message when you try to install System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager
• Deploying System Center 2012 - Virtual Machine Manager
• VMM 2012 SQL Server Profile
• Troubleshooting System Center 2012 - Virtual Machine Manager
• System Center 2012 - Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) General Troubleshooting Guide
• News, Requirements and Installation of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 - TechNet Wiki

5. Solutions related to VMM failover and migration:

• A live migration of a non-clustered virtual machine in Virtual Machine Manager fails with error 0x8007274D
• How to increase the timeout for Migration Jobs in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager
• Virtual Machine Live Migration Overview
• Working Through an Unsupported Cluster Configuration Scenario in Virtual Machine Manager
• Migrating Virtual Machines and Storage Overview
• Virtual Machine Storage Migration Overview
• System Center 2012 - Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) General Troubleshooting Guide

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