SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1 hotfix rollup

Microsoft has today,  July 12, 2011, released an hotfix rollup for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 (SCVMM 2008 R2) Service Pack 1 (SP1).

How to obtain this SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1 hotfix rollup package

This hotfix rollup package is available from Microsoft Update.
To obtain this update from Microsoft Update, follow these steps on a computer that is running SCVMM 2008 R2:

1. Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
2. In Control Panel, double-click Windows Update.
3. In the Windows Update window, click Check Online for updates from Microsoft Update.
4. Click important updates are available.
5. Select Update for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 SP1 (KB2562466), and then click OK.
6. Click Install updates.

Note If the Virtual Machine Manager or Virtual Machine Manager Agent service is running when you install this hotfix rollup package, you must restart the computer.

To manually download this hotfix rollup package from the Microsoft Update Catalog, visit the following Microsoft website:

http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=2562466

To install this hotfix rollup package, follow these steps:

1. Extract the VmmServer64Update.cab file to a temporary directory.
2. Open an elevated command prompt, type the following command, and then press ENTER to install the update:msiexec /update vmmServer64Update.msp BOOTSTRAPPED=1

More details on the hotfix rollup here: Description of the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 SP1 hotfix rollup package: July 12, 2011

List of issues that are resolved

Issue 1

A Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) migration to a Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) volume fails if the cluster node that owns the volume has insufficient disk space on the system volume. Additionally, you receive an error that resembles the following:

Error 2606:

Unable to perform the job because one or more of the selected objects are locked by another job.

Issue 2

Virtual machine placement may show a host as having a zero rating. If you select the host, the following message is listed on the Rating Explanation tab:

The projected disk i/o utilization (IOPS) 0 exceeds the maximum disk i/o utilization (IOPS) of -1687.

Note This issue occurs if the disk IOPS reservation for the host placement is set to a value that is larger than 2097.

Issue 3

A cluster node might not enter Maintenance mode, and you receive the following error because of a timing issue:

Error (10697):

Could not initiate live migration of Virtual machine SCVMM vmname to virtual machine host servername using this cluster configuration.

(The group or resource is not in the correct state to perform the requested operation (0x139F))