System Center and Windows 2012 R2 notes

I got a new shiny machine at home with lots of RAM, Disk space and six cores.  This allowed me to setup the following environment

  • Two host machines running windows 2012 R2 with hyper-v
  • 1 domain controller
  • 1 Server running System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator
  • 1 Server running System Center 2012 R2 operations manager
  • 1 Server running System Center 2012 R2 configuration manager

 

I downloaded the evaluations from MSDN and evaluation center. 

OS
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dn205286.aspx

SCCM
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/evalcenter/dn205297

I downloaded Orchestrator and SCOM from MSDN

For the most part, everything installed cleanly.  A few to-do’s I have yet to confirm and figure out

  • Windows firewall being enabled
  • SQL RM0 Error when installing SCCM.  I found the sqlclini.msi was zero byte file.  I downloaded an SCCM 2012 SP1 version.  Once I copied the \server1$AppsSC2012_R2_PREVIEW_SCCM_SCEPSMSSETUPBINX64sqlncli.msi, SCCM installed cleanly. 
  • I’ve also ran into a couple issues where the default gateway wouldn’t set, one on my domain controller.  After I ran route delete 0.0.0.0 and set it manually a couple times, things worked. 

 

I’m in the process of adding SCVMM 2012 R2 to another server.  I have to P2V my one host, which is running windows 2012 w/SP1.  This will allow me to learn the P2V and also update my one host to Server 2012 R2.  I tried to allow live replication between my one host running 2012 SP1 and 2012 R2.  I get an error.  I’m not a VM guru, so this hopefully learn a bit more about SCVMM, App Controller

Other goals…

  • Learn OSD
  • Live Replication
  • P2V
  • SCCM Application module
  • APM management pack

 

Stay tuned for more blog posts.  Oh btw, I’ll be tinkering with IIS 8.5 and the new logging features

Happy Geeking,

Steve Schofield

Microsoft MVP – IIS