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SCVMM 2012 and 10698 errors

This is perhaps another example of my recent comment about SCVMM making harder work of things than perhaps it should, but for all that I want to also say that it’s very likely that the root cause of this error was a mistake on our part. I also want to share this in case someone else has a similar problem. On one of our clusters, I noticed that one or two guests were failing to migrate to a particular host.

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Migrating from VSphere/ESX to SCVMM/HyperV

We’ve always been a VMWare shop. As some of you might know, I’ve been involved in the Microsoft virtualisation stack in the past, writing guides for Virtual PC and bits and pieces for the server products, but on the server side of things, at least, VMWare have always had the lead. They’ve had the advantage of beating Microsoft (and others, but this article isn’t about those) to market and the advantage of being able to concentrate on virtualisation because it’s all they do.

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